Model releases on your iPhone with iRelease

I found out about an app today for iPhone or iPad. It is called iRelease. Get it here The free version allows you to have a model sign a release right on your iPhone. It then creates a .pdf of the release that you can email to them or yourself. If you get the Pro App for $14.99 you can create custom forms and have access to all of you releases on their website. If you would like to see a video about it, watch this video of Mark Wallace explaining and showing it on an iPad. This will come in very handy!!!!

This has been brought up here before. I downloaded the pro version which I think is very cool, but I will not end up using it. Much easier for my paper versions. Just my opinion.

I do have to wonder also if such a thing holds up in court, should it come to that. I don't have an iPhone so I miss out on a lot of the best apps, so I make do with a bunch of generic paper contracts that stay in my car for the times when I don't know exactly who's coming along with a friend or whatever. If I can plan further ahead I'll prefill everything except the signatures and print those out for a particular session.

If a person is used to paper releases then you might not be as comfortable using this. However until recently I have not had much need for model releases. So I am kinda starting new with releases, and this seems like it will work well for me. With the signature being on there, I can print it out and store it away, and I am sure it would hold up in court as well as other releases.

Funny first comment on the video says EasyRelease is better
Has anyone looked at it?

cdifoto wrote in post #10464285
I do have to wonder also if such a thing holds up in court, should it come to that. I don't have an iPhone so I miss out on a lot of the best apps, so I make do with a bunch of generic paper contracts that stay in my car for the times when I don't know exactly who's coming along with a friend or whatever. If I can plan further ahead I'll prefill everything except the signatures and print those out for a particular session.

Yes, electronic-initiated documents that contain a signature by stylus or finger and can produce a hardcopy output will hold up in court. Insurance companies and banks have already proven it out. In fact, I now take credit cards on my phone in the same way--they sign on the touchscreen and I email them the receipt.

I don't think that's the problem with iPhone model releases. I myself would probably not sign most of the legalistically dense model releases I commonly see bandied about on the web if I had to parse it from an iPhone screen. A casual Net Genner might sign a simply worded electronic release, but I suspect most people will squint at it and say, "Whazzis? I ain't signin' that."

My professional purposes usually require enough paperwork for numerous reasons that a paper model release is not a problem.

RDKirk wrote in post #10467606
Yes, electronic-initiated documents that contain a signature by stylus or finger and can produce a hardcopy output will hold up in court. Insurance companies and banks have already proven it out. In fact, I now take credit cards on my phone in the same way--they sign on the touchscreen and I email them the receipt.

I don't think that's the problem with iPhone model releases. I myself would probably not sign most of the legalistically dense model releases I commonly see bandied about on the web if I had to parse it from an iPhone screen. A casual Net Genner might sign a simply worded electronic release, but I suspect most people will squint at it and say, "Whazzis? I ain't signin' that."

My professional purposes usually require enough paperwork for numerous reasons that a paper model release is not a problem.

Haha most of my clients flip right past the Terms page and go straight to the "what's it cost me and where's my signature go?"

cdifoto wrote in post #10470634
Haha most of my clients flip right past the Terms page and go straight to the "what's it cost me and where's my signature go?"

Sure, on paper. My point is that unless they're Net Gen, they may not be so casual about a digitized signature ("digitized" signature is a different beast from a "digital signature").

At any rate, the digitized signature would be legal and binding, so the OP is okay on that aspect.

RDKirk wrote in post #10471173
Sure, on paper. My point is that unless they're Net Gen, they may not be so casual about a digitized signature ("digitized" signature is a different beast from a "digital signature").

At any rate, the digitized signature would be legal and binding, so the OP is okay on that aspect.

Do you think it'd make a difference? I mean, if they're willing to skip over it on a piece of paper I'd think they'd do the same on the digital version.

I'm bring this from the dead. I might have to get this app. Seems like it will be very handy and no paper work to file. Plus you have backups.

But I've never done a model release before. And I don't know much about the legal side of things yet. Is there a good website or something I can go to for different types of releases for different states?

I live in PA. And I'm looking for release for a TFP shoot.