New rules on 2257

Originally posted by RawAlex
Pam, the answer you would get for "detrminatal to your health" would be either get your lawyer / third party to be your official record keeper (you don't have to personally on site specific) or GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS if you don't like it.

Remember, most important, these are PROPOSED rules, and they have tried to PROPOSE thigns before and they died. Hundreds and thousands of bills get put on the order sheet for a year, and only a few dozen manage to squeek through in the end.

The sky ain't falling until they pass it - and even then, I am sure there are some interesting loopholes to be found to make it all work out in the end.

Alex

Can I just state at this point the benefits of having and checking the 2257 documents.

A) Shows they exist.
B) Shows the model is over 18.

+ plus if you add in the Model Release.

C) Shows the model signed away her rights to have her image published.
D) Shows who shot the content and owns the copyright.
E) Shows when the content was produced.

Now everything can be forged. But if you think having no documents and never checking anything negates you from the above responsibilities, remembering the content we are publishing, I think Ashcroft is right.

And that makes me mad as hell.

Can't we run a tight ship ourselves, do we constantly need people like Ashcroft and Visa to show us how we should run uor businesses?