Patent ID: 7664652

Claim:
A system for producing content subject to a federal record-keeping requirement, the content depicting at least one person, the system comprising: (a) means for producing content subject to a federal record-keeping requirement; (b) a computer system; (c) a first database stored in the computer system; (d) first input means for providing information pertaining to a person to be depicted in the content to the first database; and (e) means for providing a signature to the first databases, wherein the computer system is operable to: (i) associate the information with the content produced by storing the information in a storage medium independent of a medium to be used to store the content; (ii) determine whether the stored information includes sufficient information to comply with the federal record-keeping requirement; (iii) authorize production of the content based on a determination of compliance; and (iv) prevent production of the content based on a determination of non-compliance.