Oya. Release forms are a bit of an outdated holdover from an earlier age. My understanding of today's legalities is that a photographer is free to take and use your picture "if you are in a public place, acting in a public manner". Release forms are used more as a photographer's tool to cultivate a positive attitude toward photographers than for any real legal reason.
Now, one could probably argue that school isn't a public place, but that's tenuous enough. And in reality the photographer has in no way injured or deprived me of anything, so from a legal standpoint there's very little basis for me to challenge the use, and very little point in doing so anyways.
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Date: 2004-09-18 06:24 am (UTC)Now, one could probably argue that school isn't a public place, but that's tenuous enough. And in reality the photographer has in no way injured or deprived me of anything, so from a legal standpoint there's very little basis for me to challenge the use, and very little point in doing so anyways.
At least that's my understanding.