Not sure but i think the amount of records they would need to keep may be illegal in the EU for privacy and data protection reasons. Same for Canada. Although John Stagliano keeps Rocco and Christoph Clarks' records in the U.S. anyway so maybe not. Dunno how other studios work.
Again i might be wrong but i think that's even more likly because of what will constitute acceptable i.d. They may need U.S. issued i.d. and green card. How this would stop child abuse i don't know, but then of course that's the whole point.
Of course porn goes on and on.Because Eastern European babes brought real revolution(at me)in mid of 90's!Before them,we had American babes from the same factory(blonde hair,fake big boobs and tattoos covered)and hairy babes from West Europe.I don't want porn returned back!
Thanks for that link Tinaka. All this new regulations begin to trouble me a lot.
But in that AFYI-text I found one hope: "Spiegler: "Because the way the laws are written now, an American can't go to Europe, shoot a movie and sell it here. A European could."
Thus, it seems the companies just need to get European daughter firms for which their European directors shoot in Europe. No? This may finally even save high-price Prague and Budapest as porn meccas in the last minute. Euro girls can stay home and still earn good money.
What a stupid law! Non Americans can go to Europe to shoot European Girls there and sell the DVDs in the US, American's can't. Non Americans can only work in America with an investor ID or if they get married with an American.
What will people like Christoph Clark and Jean-Yves LeCastel do? They work for american companies but shoot almost only eastern european women.
Will they have to work for european companies or only work with american women or the few european women who can get a green card?
The Beautiful Girls series or the Ass Wide Open series will not be the same then. I also like american women, but prefer the eastern european. They are more natural and they can GAPE.
Question is can a european company sell in the USA? perhaps from a site? if so there's no question each company can create a new EUROPEAN company and then sell by the net i believe they haven't even to go so far Canada or Mexico could be the same.
about privacy laws in Europe they are not the same but basically they said that no one can have a database or an archive with sexual habits of other people a producer might have an ID card number which can be verified by the authorities but not much more .in case of doubt police can control on city hall's records who the card identifies in that records there are name , date of birth and a photo and that's all , no one can do this control except for investigating authorities and even them need an order from a judge to do so in many cases
I have a question a little bit oT , Is my nude Jessica Alba avatar allowed? or am I risking to be deactivated?
Edited by - Laurie Cameron Fan on 6/22/2005 2:47:02 PM
European producer sells movie to U.S distributor. U.S distributor then becomes "secondary producer" and foreign ID is acceptable for compliance with new 2257 rules. The new rules shouldn't affect foreign producer/directors like Cristoph Clark etc.
Another possible scenario is that at some point a judge will see these new regulations as the end-run around the constitution that they are and send the Federal thought police yet another humiliating defeat.
Somewhere on some peer-to-peer network or perhaps some clandestine chatroom, one pedophile is swapping images with another in complete secrecy and privacy and getting away with it while the Federal Government is about to unleash a torrent of cumbersome and deliberately confusing set of rules upon otherwise law abiding webmasters and video companies ostensibly in the interest of protecting the children who are currently being abused and exploited in the shadows by pedophiles and scumbags and for who these new rules do absolutely nothing to protect.
Your government at work folks.
Osama Bin Laden kills 3000 Americans. We topple Saddam Hussein.
Tobacco kills hundreds of thousands each year. It is subsidized by the Federal government.
Marijuana makes hundreds of thousands of sick people feel better and the Federal government forbids you from growing or possessing it despite what an overwhelming majority of people in many states have voted for in referendums.
The house just approved a measure that would amend the constitution to prohibit flag burning. I don't enjoy seeing Old Glory on fire but isn't it just a tad ironic that the flag of the United States represents, among many things, the right to freedom of speech...unless you express that freedom by burning the flag that guarantees you the right to freedom of speech?
Two words - Vote Libertarian. www.lp.org
Sorry for the rant.
Quaze
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Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 11:45PM
Merely distributing is not a secondary producer according to 2257, it's only if you reproduce images, etc.. If I read it clearly. So technically, buying or selling a European movie, without reproducing any images from the movie, doesn't fall under 2257. Am I wrong for thinking this?
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Posted - Jun 23 2005 : 12:46AM
It's never been legal (on an employer level) to hire people here in the United States who do not have a permit to work (earn money) in the United States.
It's just never been brought into the 2257 regulations before.
Just like it wouldn't be legal for me to go work for Harmony in the UK and earn money from them without the proper visas to be able to work in the UK.
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Posted - Jun 23 2005 : 1:21AM
When you're correct, you're correct. Tricia, since you deal with internet retailers maybe you can clarify something for me. What are the internet retailers going to do to get 2257 compliant? Are they still allowed to show soft covers without having to keep records? If you can shed some light from your prospective, it would be great. Thanks.