new 2257 proposals

[FightThePatent]

Originally posted by *KK*@Jul 2 2004, 08:55 AM
This isnt about DVDs that are sold and shipped, this is about digitally transmitted content.

2257 statue is about all forms of production that includes sexually explicit material, digital or not.


For digitally transferred video from a website, the new 2257 regs talk about webmasters needing to have model releases and info for those in the video clip that is served from the webmaster's website.

DRM does not solve this problem. DRM can only help to identify which models are in the video and which content producer made it (by someone typing it in), so that the webmaster can look up his LOCAL COPY of the info to show prosecutors.

This is a huge burden to video content producers to gather their records and make them available to webmasters. It's a huge burden for webmasters to now hold onto these records.

Many of the image content producers already send out model releases and copies of the driver's license with the private info blackened out.

Hopefully for video, what should suffice, is what the current standard of displaying the primary record keeper info on the video, and not have to burden the webmaster with having that info...

So it's an interesting twist for the video people to look into for 2257 compliance on their end and on the webmaster's end.


-brandon