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Originally posted by charly
You are fine assuming the person uploading the pics is the person in the pics.
If it's pictures from a boyfriend, jilted lover, thief, stolen pictures off a site, or the pictures are of an under age girl (I defy you to tell the difference between a 16 and 20 year old, RIGHT EVERYTIME).
Or the girls, Dad, Uncle, brother, neightbor find them and she swears they were stolen and just posted up on the net without her knowledge.
Then I suggest you need to get a good attorney now.
I do not believe you guys, are you really living in the US? The US is litigation mad, there are attorneys out there looking for any excuse to sue. Recently a big magazine company were sued because they were stupid enough to have only an English model release on a Hungarian girl. The lawyer said she did not understand. Cost them $50,000 to get rid of them both.
So I suggest you go right ahead with your plans they sound really good to me. Should be a great niche. FOR ATTORNEYS.
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You said it, bro! I would add that people should avoid the bedsheet (meaning, huge and lengthy and legalese) releases attorneys like. They are just trying to rack up billable time with those things. I feel a simple, easily understood, plain English release is the way to go (for an English speaking model). A girl can go to court and argue that a release should be invalidated, and one of the grounds might be that she didn't really understand it, and when asked why she didn't get an attorney to look at it, she would reply "I was only makin' $200!" Give your model a release any idiot can understand.