Sponsors, Please help! 2257 and Free Content

[Boogie]

Hi Emmanuelle,

this is true however most sponsors do provide downloadable content and zips and movie files for use in building your own galleries, which many of us have done.

That is specifically what i meant for this thread and sorry i wasnt more clear

[koolkat]

Wouldn't TGPs which use sponsor links and host an image be required to get this info?

[Boogie]

Originally Posted by koolkat

Wouldn't TGPs which use sponsor links and host an image be required to get this info?

Many interpretations of the regulation state that any image that depicts a sexual type situation or sexually explicit content requires 2257 data be on file!

That goes for sponsor created and produced and released content, thumbs, banners, creatives and more!

Whats more even if you crop out the sexually explicit part of the image you still need to maintain data, according to a fair number of interpretations.

Sponsors need to figure out what they're doing or else the june 23rd blackout is going to be a blackout for a lore more than just surfers

Traffic is going to make a major switch from those who would not provide this information to those who readily did.

[Linkster]

Alex - I would tend to disagree with the statement that if the sponsor is hosting it that you still need docs - I can link to anything I want (including imbedding images hosted other places just as Google does with their image search) as long as I am not actually physically putting it onto my server I dont believe that would be covered.

Then again - I guess this means that any newstand that carries Hustler and little fast-stop that carries magazines will have to have 2257 docs for every magazine they sell - sorry - just doesnt wash out right - Im just an affiliate not a producer - I dont care what all the psuedo lawyers have to say

[bdld]

you'd still needs the docs if you're hotlinking images because you hold editorial control over the site's content, iframing also.

[Linkster]

I think you are reading way too much into this - here's what the DOJ said when these type comments were made:

"Two commenters commented that the definition of producer in the
proposed rule was too broad and would encompass a convenience store
that sold sexually explicit magazines or a movie theater that screened
R-rated movies. The Department declines to adopt this comment. As the
rule makes clear, mere distributors of sexually explicit material are
excluded from the definition of producers and under no plausible
construction of the definition would a movie theater be covered merely
by screening films produced by others"

I do believe this would be exactly the same thing that say a link site doing some advertising would be doing by using the sponsors advertising - since you are not "digitizing" anything - just adding a link to it

[emmanuelle]

Originally Posted by Boogie

Hi Emmanuelle,

this is true however most sponsors do provide downloadable content and zips and movie files for use in building your own galleries, which many of us have done.

That is specifically what i meant for this thread and sorry i wasnt more clear

Yes, of course
I read your post literally :-)