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Originally Posted by Nikki_Licks
Honestly, I have never seen a generic one that I would use. Mine was drawn up by our attorney. It may be wise to have an attorney draw one up to fit your special needs  |
Assuming the lawyer is working in the performing arts field this is excellent advice. If he's not it could be wrong and very bad. Check out what the lawyers knows and understands first.
Here are a few tips I've learned along the way.
On a casting if the girl is getting nude and looks 14 to 25 check her ID, 16 year olds can look 21 and you might get yourself in a sit load of problems by not checking her ID from the start. They don't mind if you sound professional.
When you shoot a girl for publication take a picture of her holding her
2 legal IDs next to her face.
On every single scene. Take pictures or flat bed scans of her ID and check that you can clearly read them before she leaves. I take a picture of them by laying them on the floor, bed or table near a wall and bouncing the light off the wall. The reason for her to do this is so she can't say in the future that THIS SCENE was a test scene for free and not for publication.
Also to be more than safe you can get her to say into the video camera after the scene, her name, age, address, that she knew what she was doing, doing it for $XYZ, was under no coercion or pressure to do it and was not under the influence of drugs of alcohol at the time.
If her native language is not English translate the main model release into her native language and get her to sign it like the normal one.
Yes it's very involved, but done right it makes you look professional and it's not as involved as dealing with irate girls who get discovered naked and fucking some one on the Internet. Or those who simply want another pay day. They know they are screwed and if you do get a phone call from one causing trouble you can tell her you will see her in court and she will lose and pay your costs. Or you can be nice and give her more money. LOL
Chances are slim but I bet the guy who runs GGW was wishing he had taken these precautions. Got wrong the ultimate price is prison.