2257 regs published in full

[RawAlex]

Barron, the first one is easy: The model release has terms and conditions on it, the model swears the information is true and current as of that time. Two pieces of ID, etc. What does is releive you of the need to go back to the model each time you use an image and ask for new ID and updated information. Basically, you don't have to follow the performed forward in time, only backwards.

You have to be careful in replacing words. By replacing matter with "digital image" you have changed significantly what the rules read. Matter is matter, and image is an image. Printed matter can be a book, magazine, paper, or other. Don't add or remove words to get the desired result or concern.

The DOJ said:

One commenter commented that the requirement that the statement
appear on the home page of a Web site is vague because many web sites
operate with subdomains, making the actual homepage or principal URL
difficult to identify. The Department declines to adopt this comment.
Subdomains, as the name implies, are URLs that share the top-level
domain name's basic URL and have additional identifying address
information to provide additional content on a separate Web page. Each
subdomain thus has its own homepage

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and each homepage must feature the statement. For example, http://www.usdoj.gov
is the full domain name of the Web site of the Department

of Justice. http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal is the Web page of the

Criminal Division, which is hosted by the Department's Web site. Under
this rule, http://www.usdoj.gov would be required to have a statement and that statement would cover anything contained on http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal.
However, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov is a

subdomain of the full domain http://www.usdoj.gov and would be required

to have its own statement on that page, which would then cover any
material on a Web page linked to it, such as http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/
, the Web page of the Office for Victims of Crime.

The rules are bad enough without trying to re-write them to make them worse.

Alex

[Barron]

Thats where I am scratching my head, lol

Affixing the statement to the website is easy to understand.

I'm not trying to make it harder, I'm trying to make it less harder. Every response I have gotten privately has been "No way" they wouldnt requrie that. But I'm still scratching my head, lol.

I really want to think that cooler heads prevailed in all this. The AG and DOJ has to carry out Bush's policy. But, the guys that actually write this stuff are employees. Wouldnt be great if the guys that wrote this said, "Bush's policy sucks". And then, wrote the regs so they would be all screwed up and get thrown out it court, lol.