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In my podcast interview with Julie Meadows this week I said webcam shoots are going to be the thing. Either you’re on board right now or you’ve missed the train.
Speaking of trains, Porno Dan got his ticket punched this week when eight LA vice cops visited his place of business and cited his man in charge for shooting a live show without a permit.
Rest assured, LA Vice will be visiting a lot of places of businesses in weeks to come but Dan learned some lachrymose facts of life and some he should have known already.
It’s involving that pesky thing called permits. According to a www.avn.com news story, Dan was at today’s [again unannounced] meeting of the Working Group on the Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Ordinance in Los Angeles.
Since Leal brought up the subject, he was told he’d need a permit for these shoots. Leal seem surprised when FilmLA’s VP of Communications & Public Affairs Todd Lindgren informed him that any commercial production, including webcasts, needed one.
“So any webcam show shot by anyone in the city of Los Angeles will now need a permit, is that correct?” Leal asked.
“Has always needed a permit, right,” Lindgren corrected him noting that under the city ordinance if it’s for commercial purposes it needs a permit.
“Ergo, any married couple shooting in their house, who’s shooting a webcam show for profit or gain, which by definition would be every single person that shoots webcam, would now need a permit, is that correct?” Leal wanted to know.
He was told that was indeed the case although the mandate of condoms hasn’t been worked into the specifics.
Attorney Michael Fattorosi also noted that the large amount of commercial shooting that is going on of a hardcore nature would be almost impossible to regulate.
“The law is broadly written [and] anyone involved in the production of an adult film could be cited under this law, whether that includes makeup artists or a hired performer; you have issues as far as being able to identify who the producers are; you have overseas producers that are now looking to Los Angeles as a place to hire directors and performers. There is an insurmountable task in front of LAPD to identify the parties that may not even be the actual producers.”
Fattorosi reminded those in attendance that the adult business is a worldwide venture with foreign interests in Los Angeles and that there were broader regulatory issues in play involving the First Amendment.
“We’re in tough economic times,” he added.
“And there may be married couples, there may be single women who do this in order to make extra money, or to be able to pay their rent, and if you’re expecting them to pay $750 or more per month to maintain a filming permit, to be able to earn that, they won’t, and they probably can’t afford to.”
[Of course the other side of that argument is if you can’t afford to pay, you can’t afford to play.]