Quote Originally Posted by JustMe
My attorney told me the same thing, IF you're the one that altered the explicit picture to censor it. IE: if an affiliate were to be the one that edited an explicit picture to censor it, he/she then becomes a secondary producer, and needs the IDs.
I'd love to know his reasoning behind that one. Sure, you definitely become the secondary producer. But we're talking secondary producer of the newly non-sexually explicit photo. Since when do photos that are not sexually explicit fall under 2257 records requirements regardless of who produced them?

I can see how it would be an ultra safeguard to keep the ID's on hand of cropped content though. If the feds know you cropped the head shot or whatever from an original sexual pic they believe may have been CP then who knows what they could try and do to you if you can't prove the crop actually did come from a legal photo.

But that's more of a CP prosecution prevention measure than a 2257 violation, correct?