You have an image of a person and you want to use it as the BG for your website or as the main image on your home page/splash page. Do you need a model release?
Yes
No
Maybe
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Model release Question #2
You have an image of a person and you want to use it as the BG for your website or as the main image on your home page/splash page. Do you need a model release?
Last edited by sk66; 01-12-2013 at 11:01 PM. Reason: spelling
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What, no one is even willing to guess?
JustMe
I'm not sure what BG is but regardless if it's your site or not I think you would need a model release from the model in question just to cover your own a.. If you don't have a release from the model in the photograph do you own the copyright of said photo?
Rick
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I'm pretty sure you need a model release if you are to release and shots of your model; yes you need a model release. Or you can personally ask them as verbal contract is true to law.
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Yes, you own the copyright of any photo "legally" obtained. See the first question.Originally Posted by redartsjr
Last edited by sk66; 01-12-2013 at 11:36 PM.
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As the saying goes, verbal contracts are as good as the paper they are written on. But you are correct in a way. In over half of the states a model release does not have to written, nor does it even have to be agreed to verbally.
JustMe
I vote yes
Rick
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BTW, BG means the background image for your website design.
JustMe
Thanks. See I learn something new every time I sign on here.
Rick
I'm new here!
Voted maybe.
Not enough info - a person who's just shooting for fun, using an image as a BG or as one rotating image in a fullscreen BG layout is no different than someone putting an image in a Flickr album.
Depends on who the person is and their relation to the photographer. Family/friend or random person?
If the photographer is a working pro, or aiming to be and selling their service, it's another matter.
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