HELP!!! Model Releases for large groups

01/17/2008 01:04:40 PM · #1

Question for those who do schools, teams, and other large groups. How do you handle model releases? I'm going to be doing my first set of photo's for a school band, and I'm wondering if I need to get a model release from each individual child if I want to use the group shoots photo's. also If I have permission to use the group shots does that mean I can also use the individual shot? (if I can use their head in a group does is follow that I can use their head solo?) is there anything on a legal note I should know? of should I just leave it all alone shoot the pictures and forget about ever using the photos?

Help and thanks!

pineapple

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

01/17/2008 01:07:51 PM · #2

I believe it would be necessary to have a release for each individual. Include in that release that you have the right to use that person's photograph individually and in within a group. There is no such thing as a crowd release ;-)

Olympus 50mm f/1.8 MF Normal Zuiko

01/17/2008 01:38:58 PM · #3

Originally posted by pineapple:

Now with the school band... is this something that should be undertaken via just the teacher/band assiciation or should the school itself be involved... don't schools often do similar releases every year... I seem to recall something similar in my school days

emorgan49

Olympus E-5

01/17/2008 02:54:57 PM · #4

For my childrens school I had to sign a blanket release at the beginning of each school year or rather they sent me a blanket release and I had the option of opting out. That applied to school photos used for school, not commercial, purposes. In shooting school plays I had to be aware of which kids were on the "do not photograph" list.

01/17/2008 04:04:57 PM · #5

Originally posted by emorgan49:

This is sounding more and more like a royal PITA... but then what do you do if you want school shots for your portfolio :S so I'm guessing then I should be finding out if the school has done this blanket release type of deal and see if it even applies to me

icu1965

Sony DSLR-A200

Sony 75-300 mm f/4.5-5.6

01/17/2008 04:10:58 PM · #6

I know when I taught school we could take pictures of our students as long as their parents signed the form at the beginning of the school year. As long as they signed it, we could do whatever we wanted with the photos. We usually just put them on the bulletin board, but we could send them into the newspaper to get published too.

SaraR

Sony Alpha a7R III

Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM

01/17/2008 04:14:13 PM · #7

I used to think that this signing a release for shool producion and class photos was all OTT, but a couple of years ago my sister started fostering 'at risk' children. She had told the school no photos of the children should be published (as instructed by the police and social services), but the school 'forgot' and one of the children's photos was published in the regional newspaper, the father identified where the child was living, and as a consequence the child had to move on to another foster family in a new area.