firstly - tux, are you sure? [I read your comment to an Aussie lawyer friend of mine, she almost spat her coffee trying to say "thats not right" ]
Pasky and I were shooting some guys playing footy in a public field yesterday, The photos are being used for a property developers brochure, we asked if we could shoot, we asked them to sign releases afterwards... there were about eight guys, four of them signed, four of them disappeared. What to do?... Well, when you don't have a release signed and you "on sell" the photo to a publisher / agency / magazine etc for use in something like i've mentioned above, they can take a view and decide if they'd like to include the guys in the photos they use, or not. The legal position is passed on to the publisher with the sale of the photo - if the person in the photo decides to take action, they can so against the publisher - though, the publisher then will usually come after you as the photographer to recover costs... Make sure you have indemnity in your contract when you onsell photos?... Nic, would that work?...
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