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Also, I want to emphasize that I was not paid and the dog owners did receive valuable compensation in form of edited images. There was a verbal agreement that I would be using the pictures in a book. Does that matter or do I still need a property release from the owner of the dog?

It may depend where you work. (i.e. country /state etc), yet as a general comment, you probably will require a release to use the images for "Commercial Purposes".

 

In my situation, I would require a release to use images of 'property'. In my situation the dog owners "own" the dogs, therefore I would require a "Property Release" (that is NOT a 'Model Release', but the wording is similar).

 

Also you need to inquire exactly what "Commercial Purposes" means: again, only speaking from my situation, images used in 'a book' may not necessarily be "Commercial Purposes".

 

For responses tailored to your situation, more information is required from you.

 

WW

 

MODERATOR NOTE:

This has little, if anything, to do with "legal copyright question" and I have changed the conversation's title to reflect a more accurate overview of the question

 

Thanks, William. I’m in Los Angeles, CA. By commercial use, I mean if Iwanted to license the images for use on other things like apparel, or a calendar, etc. Also, I tried to change the title of the posting, realizing it was inaccurate, but was unable to. I appreciate your doing that for me

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