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The simple way to look at it is this, if you did not snap the photo yourself, you need a signed contract from the person who took the photo and the person in the photo (which would be a model release in most cases) to use the photo for commercial purposes. If you did snap the photo, you need the release of the subject to use the photo commercially.Brutal [/B]
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As my lawyer put it to me a while ago, "The only way to transfer ownership or put a photo into the public domain is IN WRITING."
To my knowledge, and because of the ease with which electronic documents can be forged and/or tampered with, only an ink on paper signature is truly binding.