Biggest SHOCK of the day!

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The photographer does own the copyright, always will(unless they have some contract with someone that expressly gives the other person or entity the copyright). Model releases are necessary to cover the photographer from lawsuits pertaining to the use of the image of a person, its basically a way for the photographer to cover their arse in case the subject of the image decides they don't want their image to be published. The photograper can argue in court that they have a release signed by the model.

The paparazzies generally shoot in public area's, out in the street and use teh guise of "journalism" to make it unneccessary for model releases. Even teh shots of "celebrities" in private places are generally shot from a public location to allow them to keep this blanket of "journalism" intact.

Just my thoughts on the subject, none have been researched at teh time of posting, but were researched at an earlier date and were pulled from my memory for teh purposes of posting. Some inaccuracies may be included in this posting due to memory lapse.