Why leave the Silicon Valley the privilege of trying to postpone aging? Hollywood has found a solution. According to a law promulgated on 24 September by the governor of California, Jerry Brown, the actors will prevent the publication date of birth on sites used by studios for recruitment. Ageless, they will be eternally young.
Coquetry stars? On the contrary. Instead stars, whose civil status is anyway in the public domain, it is a claim of supporting roles, who complain of discrimination at the age. "Although it is contrary to the laws federal and state, it continues in the industry of entertainment , justified the author of the law, the Democratic representative from California Ian Calderon. These players should not be excluded from hearings only on the basis of their age."
The text voted late August almost unanimously by the Assembly of the State, is essentially the site IMDb (Internet Movie Database), owned by Amazon since 1998. This database on the cinema world, for free public, is lined with a paid service (IMDbPro) that provides access to a comprehensive directory of the profession. The studios are there information on players and contracts. Those looking for roles in movies, television series and commercials pay for them post their CV. A from the 1 st January 2017, anyone who so request can see its age eliminated the published profiles.
Prevent "cult of youth"
The actors union, the Screen Actors Guild, which represents more than 160,000 professionals, welcomed this measure which will prevent, he said, the "cult of youth" faced by lesser-known actors, including women. The president of the Guild, Gabrielle Carteris, itself assured she would never have auditioned for her teenage role in the 1990s series "Beverly Hills 90210" cast if officials had realized that it was twenty years older than her character. At the time, she points out in a text published by the Hollywood Reporter , discrimination was a relatively isolated phenomenon. The Internet, with online casting sites, made a reflex "quasi-automatic" among recruiters: Information is everywhere.
Silicon Valley and civil libertarians are, however, very critical of the new law. They see it as a violation of the principle of freedom of expression enshrined in the 1 st Amendment to the Constitution. Claiming "the suppression of accurate information" , complains Michael Beckerman, president of the Internet Association, the lobby representing the industry giants, it establishes a "dangerous precedent that could be wreaking havoc on the Internet" . put online the information "is not a form of discrimination , he added. Internet companies should not be penalized for the way people use public data ."
Lawyers expect a challenge in court the constitutionality of the law. A rare confrontation, the United States, the issue of right to oblivion.
