Just when you thought uploading your photos to iStockphoto.com couldn't be any more tedious...Microstock giant iStockphoto recently announced that they were stepping up their standards for model releases (those little permission slips for models). The change that is going to make the most difference for my fellow photographers (myself included) is iStockphoto now requires a model release for every session with a model. No more universal releases for the same model for different shoots.
I have a hard time keeping track of releases for the 5-10 models I work with. The one that is really going to give me a lot of trouble is my son. I take photos of him almost everyday, most of those photos are ones I will sell. I can only imagine how many model releases I will have to fill out for him before he turns eighteen...lets say 2 a week for the next 17 years = 1,768! Oh, shoot me now!
All jokes aside, iStockphoto is one of my top earning sites. I can stop uploading new photos anytime, I choose to keep uploading because they are a great site and represent my work well.
Read the article at iStockphoto.com here
Wow, nice photo :) he is very photogenic!
ReplyDeletecongrats and cheers!
Thanks Luis. That is a photo of my son, River.
ReplyDeleteYeah this new rule is definitely inconvenient, but in the end it's smart I guess. Just a little bit more work, but more to cover your butt legally (at least when the models aren't your relatives).
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