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Originally Posted by mikesouth
As I read it companies in L.A. who are shooting hardcore are going to have to have permits
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Maybe you don't understand the geography here in LA, Mike. The City of Los Angeles is huge, but there are a lot of independent cities dotted around the greater Los Angeles conurbation... places like Burbank, Malibu, Santa Monica, Culver City, and Beverly Hills, to mention just a few. Presumably unincorporated Los Angeles County won't be subject to these new regulations as its not the City of LA. And Ventura County is contiguous with the San Fernando Valley.
Producers have a lot of alternatives to shooting in the City of Los Angeles.
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Originally Posted by mikesouth
...so it doesn't matter if you don't get a one shoot permit or you shoot on private property, the very product you produce could be used as evidence that you aren't in compliance.
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And how is that going to happen? If the producer is shooting indoors, the scene could be shot anywhere. Unless the AHF succeeds in getting a regulation stating that all porn shot in Southern California must have embedded GPS encoding, it's going to be next-to-impossible to know exactly where a scene was shot. Though I guess if a producer is dumb enough to shoot somewhere that can be identified as being in the City of Los Angeles--staging an orgy on the steps of City Hall, for example--then, yes, maybe they'll get busted.