> Who are you obligated to provide the records to? When you get a records request from such a party, how long do you have to respond?
You are required to maintain the records at your place of business or with an identified custodian, with specified content, indexing and cross-reference structure, to provide identification of where they are stored along with any depictions sold/distributes, and make them immediately available for inspection by inspectors authorized by the US Attorney-General (which will generally, as I understand, be any US law enforcement agency which asks for such authority) on demand during normal business hours which are either 9-5 local time or, for inspections at the producer's place of business, the producer's actual working hours, which must be provided to inspectors and, if not at least 20 regular working hours per week, must provide notice of at least 20 hours per week during which the records are available for on-demand inspection even if they aren't otherwise working hours for the producer.
> As long as there aren't too many parties who can ask for the records, and you don't have to provide them on very short order,
I don't think either of those qualifications actually holds, especially the second.
You are required to maintain the records at your place of business or with an identified custodian, with specified content, indexing and cross-reference structure, to provide identification of where they are stored along with any depictions sold/distributes, and make them immediately available for inspection by inspectors authorized by the US Attorney-General (which will generally, as I understand, be any US law enforcement agency which asks for such authority) on demand during normal business hours which are either 9-5 local time or, for inspections at the producer's place of business, the producer's actual working hours, which must be provided to inspectors and, if not at least 20 regular working hours per week, must provide notice of at least 20 hours per week during which the records are available for on-demand inspection even if they aren't otherwise working hours for the producer.
> As long as there aren't too many parties who can ask for the records, and you don't have to provide them on very short order,
I don't think either of those qualifications actually holds, especially the second.