Attorney Lawrence G. Walters talks about what the new Department of Justice revisions to the 2257 regulations really mean to webmasters and site owners.

That being said, many of you are probably not aware of what exactly happens to cause Federal Agents to come knocking on your door in a not-so-Three’s-Company kind of way.

The Justice Department just released a newly revised Section 2257, 167 pages in length (ouch!), and I foresee American webmasters making “update every single page of every single website I own” as part of their resolutions for 2009.

Anyone over the age of 18 with a videocamera can shoot content and share it with the world, without need for high production values created by large XXX production companies. Right? Maybe … maybe not.

The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1994 stated that “Foreign producers who wish to peddle their products in the United States should be expected to abide by our laws no less than domestic producers.”

One of the appeals for the Lords case went before the United States Supreme Court. Congress had no choice, due to public outcry, but to pass legislation “imposing certain obligations on the producers of graphical representations of actual, explicit sexual conduct”.

I was asked to present a visual version of the 2257 paperwork and accompanying documentation, so I’m going to show you here what’s actually required.

I mentioned briefly the legal battle that Joe Francis and Mantra Films of “Girls Gone Wild” fame went through in my intial post about 2257 paperwork. It’s important to note a case like this in more depth because it shows you exactly how the 2257 paperwork works to protect minors.