Model Releases - Every time?

[Michael_Lambert]

Hey everyone,

Question i have one woman who i worked with, Amanda. Now she has shown great interest in coming by often she kind of wants to use my home studio as a revolving door when she is feeling photogenic she wants to just pop in, which i am more than happy with she was fun to work with and i would love to have a few more sessions with her to add to my own portfolio. Currently she works for 8x10s :D

Now i had her sign a model release on the weekend - Do we have to have them sign one every time they model? Or is it a one time thing.. I have had her here once and what i did was took her release attached a headshot to it and a copy of a cd with all the RAW files and put it in my fireproof cabinet.. Do i need to do this every time with the release? Or is there a general release she can sign?

Regards

[pos]

I would play it safe and have her sign a release for each shoot and date it. pos

[poloman]

I agree with pos.....

[dr_skn08]

I am new to online photography and microstock photography... can any one tell me if in a photograph the face of the subject(man/woman/teen/child) is hidden... do we still need to get the model release ?

[RDKirk]

Hey everyone,

Question i have one woman who i worked with, Amanda. Now she has shown great interest in coming by often she kind of wants to use my home studio as a revolving door when she is feeling photogenic she wants to just pop in, which i am more than happy with she was fun to work with and i would love to have a few more sessions with her to add to my own portfolio. Currently she works for 8x10s :D

Now i had her sign a model release on the weekend - Do we have to have them sign one every time they model? Or is it a one time thing.. I have had her here once and what i did was took her release attached a headshot to it and a copy of a cd with all the RAW files and put it in my fireproof cabinet.. Do i need to do this every time with the release? Or is there a general release she can sign?

Regards

You need a release at least for each day IMO. There is a big gray area we commonly work within, and to a great extent you have to find your own place of comfort within it.

If a case goes to court, you will have to prove that the model release in your hand was granted for the specific images being contested. How specific must it be? Historically, specificity to a particular date has passed court test.

That's still pretty broad, and there is certainly room for question, but it's been working so far. I would not try to expand the ambiguity to make a single release cover a number of days and certainly not an open-ended period of time. OTOH, I think it would also work to make a single release cover a specific multi-day project...just as long as there is some reasonable delination of the limits of the release.

[RDKirk]

I am new to online photography and microstock photography... can any one tell me if in a photograph the face of the subject(man/woman/teen/child) is hidden... do we still need to get the model release ?

You will find that stock agencies will require it for their own protection.

The issue is not "visible face," it's "recognizability," and "recognizable" is not limited to a visible face, nor does "recognizable" require absoluteness.

Most of the people who know me can probably recognize me by the back of my head, and that would be sufficient for the court.

[Dan Marchant]

Most of the people who know me can probably recognize me by the back of my head, and that would be sufficient for the court.
Given that most of us are photographers and spend all our time with our camera stuck to our faces most of our acquaintances only have the back of our heads to go on.

[Mark1]

It is only weird/awkward the first few times. Soon asking for the release to be signed will be as "normal" as making sure you have a memory card in the camera. Just do it and be safe. A one covers all release means if she disputes one image they all may be suspect. Where as if you do one release each time you may only lose one set.

[spitfirex007]

I don't want to hi jack your thread. But is there a site I can go to that will allow me to download and print these model releases?

[saturnin]

google search + your printer = model release

[Dan Marchant]

Google search = model release form + [your country]

[kent andersen]

I prefer asking for release everytime.

This is a picture where Getty was not asking for a model release. Still I went to the couple and asked them if it was ok to sell the picture on a stock agency. They where fine with it, and I was then knowing that they would not be angry if they saw the picture on a big adverticement. No mather if the picture is legal to sell without a model release, it is still the best way to threat friends and costumer to get them to agree to the way you use the pictures.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3565/5779676531_42d597b600_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41388512@N05/5779676531/)
hochzeit (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41388512@N05/5779676531/) by andersen_kent (http://www.flickr.com/people/41388512@N05/), on Flickr