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PhotoRESEARCHER |
PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for April, Week Four #451D |
KEY WORDS: |
First Amendment Rights |
Model Release |
Inform |
Educate |
Yes |
Stock Photography |
Horror Stories |
Mythology |
Mythical Room |
Talents |
Persistence |
Challenge | NEWSWORDS: | The Rights-Managed Advantage | He’s Free Again | Making A Difference | Oldest Picture Gets Its Test | How’d He Do It? | Elvis Found! | No I Won’t | She’s Got A Gun | Back Then | From Castro To Nikita | New Insight | Another Sleuth |
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When Are
Model Releases Required?
Advance Notes : There’s been no area of editorial stock photography more misunderstood than the topic of model releases. Here’s some clarification.
Photo columnists, unaware of their First Amendment Rights , have been fanning the fires of this hotly debated question for decades. A wall of mythology has built up around the subject, and I'll make the first move to break it down for you. To give a simplistic answer: No, for editorial usage a model release is not needed.
Have you ever seen a newspaper photographer ask for a model release? Did the video photographer in the Rodney King case ask the policemen or Mr. King for a model release ?
If a photo is informing or educating the public, you do not need a model release.
And this is where the confusion comes in. Here at PhotoSource International we focus on the editorial arena and follow the trail of the new generation of new media. Its emphasis is the publication trade: magazines, books, and electronic media. About a million dollars a day are spent in this category of stock photography, whose essential mission is to INFORM and to EDUCATE . Photographic use in this arena rarely requires a model release, unless the photo is so sensitive that it might compromise a person in some way. Short of highly sensitive areas such as drug abuse, sex education, mental retardation, you won't find requests for a model release.
“How and why was I under the impression that for publication, model releases are always required?" you ask.
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Fro the freelance photo researcher . . . What's Over There?
Most small business owners scramble to keep ahead. As the saying goes, they are too busy making a living to take the time to make a life. "Where are you headed...?" I've asked small business people over the years. Most of them point to a mythical room, somewhere over there. If they survive, they believe they will gain entry to that room, where they'll find peace, an abundant life, time to travel, even a trout stream. They consider hard work and long hours to be the passwords or keys to that mythical room they'll gain entry to once they have "paid their dues." For those of us engaged in aspects of the stock photo industry, this need not be the case. We have the opportunity to be our own boss, work at our own time schedule, and live where we want to, right from the start. I know many entrepreneurs who said early in their career, "Here's where I want to live; here's what I want my lifestyle to be." They pulled up stakes and went for it. They are fulfilling their expectations, and most people define this as success. You can turn that mythical room and all its treasures into reality when you break away from the stereotype and settle in to a thriving lifestyle, one that will allow your talents to blossom. Your spirit will blossom, also. Your friends and family will see you as a new person. Many of the barriers that you anticipated will fall -- thanks to your persistence , and much of the overhead that you may have thought was necessary in life (designer clothing, a current-year car, a status address) will become unessential. Your new lifestyle will force you to discover creative survival techniques. It will be a struggle, yes, but aren’t some of your best memories those where you overcame an uphill struggle or challenge ? Rohn Engh, veteran stock photographer and publisher of “PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter,” has provided on-line information to photobuyers, photo researchers and photo editors for two decades. For info: http://www.photosource.com/photobuyer/.
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Watch
for developments in the field of stock photography in
PhotoResearcher's Newsletter Note: If the URL is long, it may extend to two lines. In that case - clicking on it won't work. Instead, "copy and paste" the URL. THE RIGHTS-MANAGED ADVANTAGE. 11 Reasons for Buyers to Choose Rights-Managed Photography Over Royalty-Free - . While there is no right or wrong, RM images provide a level of protection for both the photographer and the buyer that just cannot be had with RF. http://rising.blackstar.com/11-reasons-for-buyers-to-choose HE’S FREE AGAIN. Board grants amnesty to AP photographer. An Iraqi judicial panel dismissed the last remaining criminal allegation against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein on Sunday and ordered him released from custody, two years and one day after he was detained by the U.S. military. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/ MAKING A DIFFERENCE. The Risk And Reward Of Commitment - Phil Borges and Colin Finlay are two photographers who focus on the important social and humanitarian issues around the world and at home. Helping others and creating change has developed into an important aspect of their photographic careers. http://shutterbug.com/columns/ OLDEST PICTURE GETS ITS TEST. Photo drama as Sotheby's withdraws 'oldest' pic - Following the publication of the catalogue. Scholars across the field of photography have entered into a spirited and lively dialogue about the possible origins of the Leaf. More research will be done in the coming months. http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/ HOW’D HE DO IT ? Pulitzer Winner Adrees Latif On Covering Myanmar - Reuters photographer Latif discusses how he got the photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize. http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/ ELVIS FOUND! Elvis unearthed! Dorset photographer rediscovers trove of performance pics - Long-lost photographs of Elvis Presley's first concert in New York City surfaced recently after being filed away and forgotten about for nearly 36 years. http://www.benningtonbanner.com/ NO I WON’T. ADF to appeal N.M. commission's ruling against Christian photographer. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund say they will appeal a ruling by the New Mexico Civil Rights Commission Wednesday because of its "stunning disregard" for the First Amendment. The commission found an Albuquerque photography company, run by a Christian husband and wife, guilty of "sexual orientation" discrimination under state antidiscrimination laws for declining to photograph a same-sex "commitment ceremony." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000470/posts SHE’S GOT A GUN. Nancy Floyd grew up in gun country - small-town south Texas - but didn't buy a gun until 1991, with the onset of the Gulf War. She wanted to connect with her brother Jimmy, a gun lover who died in Vietnam when she was 12. "And that's how it started." The result: A year’s long project photographing women - preteens, grandmothers, cops, olympic hopefuls - with guns. ... http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/ BACK THEN. Author Looks Behind A Shocking Photo That Weakened America's Anti-Busing Movement. Iconic images of American racism include whip-scarred slaves and lynching victims, bloodied civil rights protesters and a photograph from 1976 that appears to show a young white man about to spear a black man with the Stars and Stripes. http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-flagattack.artapr14,0,715623.story FROM CASTRO TO NIKITA. Burt Glinn, a photojournalist for Magnum Photos, Inc., whose images of historic moments of the Cold War include Fidel Castro's 1959 march on Havana and Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. that year, has died. He was 82. http://www.ibtimes.com/ NEW INSIGHT. X-ray book reveals an inner beauty A new book of photography has revealed a curious world of intricate beauty hidden beneath everyday objects. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ ANOTHER SLEUTH. Copyright Tool Will Scan Web For Violations. Attributor has received $10MM in financing from its investors. T he Stock Photography industry has for several years been served in a similar manner by the Israeli company PicScout, which has provided an online image usage search service and more recently has added print searches to its service as well.
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