FEDERAL OBSCENITY LAW????

[tickler]

It is kinda of hard to classify what the normal WM actually does, but, producer really doesn't fit the bill. Distributor isn't quite right either because that would sorta imply actually moving stuff.

Maybe something artistic, more along the lines of how some music groups do sampling from other material.So I buy the content, and then organize, crop, chop, filter, morph, color, optomize and end up displaying it on a page. Yet the original content is still there somewhere.

[SirMoby]

Originally Posted by tickler

Maybe something artistic, more along the lines of how some music groups do sampling from other material.So I buy the content, and then organize, crop, chop, filter, morph, color, optomize and end up displaying it on a page. Yet the original content is still there somewhere.

The same logic applies to this scenerio. The artists creating the final product do NOT need to ensure that the sounds they're using for sampling did not break any child labor laws.

A painter is not responsible for the makers of the canvas, brushes and pigments.

The US Department of Defense is not responsible for the Malyasian companies making the chips that go into most computer systems.

A kosher deli purchases meat from a reliable source but they are not legally responsible if that producer of meat certifies something as kosher when it is not.

Compare it to any other business, remove your own emotional responce about nudity and suddenly it seems totally crazy to have secondary producers forced to keep this level of information.