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The complete question is: <b>do you need a model release contract to

post pictures of "friends" in PN?</b> Some months ago a friend of mine

asked me to take some pictures of her. I did it and never asked for

something in return. I even gave her some free prints. At that time

she agreed on me posting her images in PN, but today she had a sort of

crisis and asked me to remove her pictures (in a very unfrendly way).

I did it but now I wonder what the legal status of those pictures is.

Other than the prints I gave her, they do not belong to her because I

never sold them. On the other hand, I know I might get in trouble if I

try to make some money with them. But, is there any legal issue that

would prevent me from showing them to the public? more specifically,

am I alowed to post them on PN without her conscent?</p>

<p>In case you are wondering, they are very normal portraits, not nude

pictures, and she is even looking-at/posing-for the camera.</p>

<p>I just hate to think that I will have to update the content of my

(non-profit) PF based on the mood of the model.

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Alejandro:

 

Very simplified, this is the differences between editorial and commercial usage.

 

Editorial - inside use in magazine, newspaper, newsletter, book etc but not in ads.

 

Commercial - when the image is used to promote or sell a product or service. Like in ads.

 

If the photographer gets paid/profits doesn't really come into play for defining the usage.

 

Hope that helps.

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Mikael: it does help in the sense that I now know that it is impossible to find an easy answer ;-)</p>

<p> Legal issues just suck... photography seemed such fun before that (of course, that will not prevent me from taking/posting pictures).</p><p>Just being courious: Does anybody knows if she is entitled of using those pictures without my conscent to promote herself as a model? (which she is already doing)

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