New 2257 Compliance Guide

[RawAlex]

If secondary producers have no liablity, then why have records?

As for the undue burden: having a cross referenced system for every image, video,and use of an image on a site is a burden. Every new use of the image requires documentation, cross referenced with where it appears and all that other stuff. Heaven forbid you rename an image, you just created yourself an hours work to document the stuff.

With no liabilty and no control over the situation, why should a secondary producer be held to the standards? It creates a huge burden with no hope of return. Remember, the average affiliate site might have tens of thousands of images from hundreds of different programs and different primary production sources. That by itself would be 30,000 pieces of paper in the filing cabinet. WOW!

"And if the primary's would contractually agree to act as a third party record keeper for the secondary then there is no need to give a secondary anything. However, would you trust the primary to hold your records correctly so that if there were mistakes you would still be criminally liable ?"

Is the secondary producer liable? You just said that secondary producers are not liable if the documents are incorrect (like fake ID) - so where is the liablity otherwise?