[Toby]

Originally Posted by tickler

Just casually glancing through the http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2...7/E7-13500.htm document:

It looks like their are some industry specific exclusions.
- Internet information location tool(can you say Google/Yahoo)

Not sure if this pulls the seconday producers back out again, or not.
2257(h)(2)(A) - Excludes from the definition of "produces".
(iii) - Any activity, other than those activities identified in subparagraph (A), that does not involve the hiring, contracting for, managing, or otherwise arranging for the participation of the
depicted performers.

Here's the subparagraph (A) the regulations are referencing.

(2) the term ‘produces’—

(A) means—

(i) actually filming, videotaping, photographing, creating a picture, digital image, or digitally- or computer- manipulated image of an actual human being;

(ii) digitizing an image, of a visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct; or, assembling, manufacturing, publishing, duplicating, reproducing, or reissuing a book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, digital image, or picture, or other matter intended for commercial distribution, that contains a visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct; or

(iii) inserting on a computer site or service a digital image of, or otherwise managing the sexually explicit content, of a computer site or service that contains a visual depiction of, sexually explicit conduct;

I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure (ii) & (iii) covers what were proviously known as secondary producers.