Hello all, I work in a professional studio for a large corporation and we use releases for virtually all of our photography, and especially for any portrayal of people. In this day and age I would get signed releases from any model, even friends, and especially if you are doing nude work. We work mostly with professional agencies which have their own releases that we sign, but our release form is the one that spells out our rights as the owners of the photos and what we may do with them. If you are interested, I can ask for permission to pass along the "guts" of the form that we use (it is worded specifically with the publication of photos in mind since we are a greeting card company). It pretty much says that we are the sole owners of the images and have the right to publish, alter and use them in any way we see fit. However, we do not assume that the standard release covers web use- for that we obtain additional permission. Web use is a line in the sand that should not be crossed without explicit permission from everyone portrayed. Most of our work is rated "G", but we do stray into more risque work for some of our product. Our amateur (non-agency) talent sign the same form. Better safe than in court!- Tina Elkins
-----Original Message----- From: Chrome Dome To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??????? Sent: 9/7/03 12:30 AM Subject: RE: [pinhole-discussion] Release Forms Thank you for the suggested site. Mike Atwell --------- Original Message --------- DATE: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 07:42:56 From: [email protected] To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??????? Cc: >"Chrome Dome" <[email protected]> wrote: >try this http://www.photowebs.com/models/release.htm > or go into your search eng. & type model releases there are a number of them. >>Does any subscribers to this site use release forms when photographing people to allowing publication rights? Could I get sample forms? >> >>MIke Atwell >>Crome Dome ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 _______________________________________________ Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML Pinhole-Discussion mailing list Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? unsubscribe or change your account at http://www.???????/discussion/
