Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina: >I give them one of my cards and tell >them to contact me for a print. That fulfills the "valuable >consideration" part of the release. Have you run that by a lawyer? If you're going to the trouble of having somebody sign a release, I'd also suggest having a lawyer make sure you stay out of trouble. Seems to me that it could be argued that it's not a valid contract if the valuable consideration was never actually given to the other party. I'm not a lawyer. I don't even play one on TV. In the news recently was a case of a photographer being up the river without the proverbial paddle for trying to blackmail Cameron Diaz using allegedly forged model releases for topless pics he had taken of her before she became famous. -- Eric http://canid.com/