Quote Originally Posted by tonysparks View Post

Finally, the one thing I find that will change for me, is all the hot immigrants and tourists who I've shot over the last couple years will never be published (at least, until the regs change)!
Assuming you reside in the US, any non-US citizens you shot inside the US prior to 6/23/05 can still be published. That is not at all in question, the DOJ made clear that the new policy about work visas for non-US citizens applies only to content CREATED after 6/23/05, although initially many thought it applied to content PUBLISHED after 6/23/05.

As for Chad's advice... I feel pretty confident taking Chad's advice because (a) he's actually been correct several times when he went against what several of the other major first amendment guys said, and I don't think he's ever been wrong (that I know of, to the extent anything's been validated) on any of the positions he's taken; (b) he's a former prosecutor who worked both locally and cooperated with the Feds and probably has a much better idea of how they allocate resources than almost anybody else doing First Amendment work, and (c) he's actually pretty conservative on some 2257 issues.

Of course, nothing that *anyone* says is definitive until there's case law to prove or disprove theories. But each of us would be wise to learn as much as we can about the issues, get advice from as many trusted sources as we feel comfortable (and economically justified) in getting, and then make the choices that are comfortable within each of our own individual levels of risk tolerance.