zhounder opened this issue on Jul 24, 2005 ยท 15 posts
ChuckEvans posted Tue, 26 July 2005 at 7:15 AM
"A signed model release with Photo-ID must be provided upon request if posting images with photographic nudes." I suppose this would be an example of R'City going beyond the requirements that have withstood the legal test for many many years. In all the examples I've seen and what I've read on releases, I don't recall reading that making a copy of a photo ID is a suggestion (much less, a requirement). I read that (quote) a while back when I posted some shots of my wife and shrugged it off remarking (to myself) that I'd just remove the image if required to go through the hassle of providing more "paperwork" to R'City than professional photographers deal with day-to-day. So, in effect, I suspect (LOL @ rhyme) 95% (plus) of the artistic nudes would be deleted in here if R'City ever crack down as photographers rarely obtain and make copies of photo IDs. Additionally, there may be some legal differences between the need for even a model release when the model is not recognizable...i.e., proving the silhouette of a butt or breast is absolutely identifiable (and therefore "belongs" to 'fill-in-the-blank'). But, I'd have to research that detail before I espoused there was a legal difference.