I'll take the same stance that we do not offer legal advice.... however based on the information and advice we were given by our council - hosted galleries will not even be a factor for our affiliates.

Since the domains in which our hosted galleries sit on are owned by us.... the affiliate should not have to keep any 2257 documents. Basically, an affiliate linking to a hosted gallery on their site is no different then a TGP linking to a submitted gallery.

I don't really get the logic of ounique.... if what they're saying becomes a reality.... then every AEN (AVS), tgp, link list, search engine would need to have the 2257 records for everything they link to.... which of course means that Webmasters will have much more to worry about then if they can link to hosted gallery. for many, their entire traffic streams would come to an end.