Model Release Form, Who needs them ?
We don’t always need the model to sign a model release form, but some photographers sign all their models just to be on the safe side. Generally, the model release form, allows the photographer to use the photos in commercial use. Following industry standards, for any work that will appear in consumer or trade magazines, newspapers, or educational books, you generally do not need a model release. The same goes for for photographic exhibits. These are considered educational/informational uses. But on the other hand you have to have a release form if you plan to use the photos for a commercial applications, such as ads, brochures, posters, greeting cards, catalogs, postcards, kiosks, trade shows, Web sites, etc. Corporate magazine are considered commecrial use, so you do need a model release form if the photo will appear in one. Whether or not publishing a photo via the internet requires a release is currently being debated in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. It is likely that any and a
