Need Copyright Release Form Recommendations

My daughter and four of her friends had a joint Sweet 16 birthday party. I set up a backdrop and strobes and shot portraits all night. One of the parents wants to submit one of the Five-Girls-Portraits to the local paper.

I'm an amateur, so I don't have those forms handy. We're all friends and I wasn't paid for this event. I want her to have the rights to print and publish as many copies of these photos as she wants. I want to retain ownership of the copyright and RAW files. She can publish to personal web pages such as Facebook or MySpace, but not photo sharing sites such as Flickr, SmugMug, or Photobucket. These photos cannot be submitted to any contest or humor blog (Failblog, Photobomb, etc).

I've attached a sample of the photos I shot so you tell me if she'll run into trouble at the local drug store printer.

Just an FYI for the professionals out there: No, I didn't eat anyone's lunch on this shoot. Hiring a professional photographer was never an option during the planning stages. I decided to pack up my studio kit just two days before the party. Most of the parents didn't know I was doing this until they showed up and saw that I had taken over a spot in the reception hall.

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What you're looking for would be a "model release form" not a copyright release form. Use that phrase in this site's search engine or use google and you should be able to find something that is at least close enough to what you want.

It's not clear what your need is here.

If she wants to send it to a newspaper, then the newspaper may want a model release from each of those pictured. However, if it's news, one is not necessary. The newspaper may want rights to the photo, so give her a letter on your letterhead that conveys a one-time, non-exclusive North American right to publish the shot.

Does she want to post it to all those Internet sites? I think you'll find that she will resent you giving her a list of precisely which sites she may and may not post to. I know I would. In any case, once it's on the Internet you have no control over who grabs it and uses it for their own purposes. Give her a low resolution jpeg that's not good for much else. Put your copyright on it, as well as in the metadata.