Filming and Photography Image Rights Release Form

This release relates to filming and/or photography in connection with the insert name of project project (the Project),by name of your business of registered/main trading address (the Producer), in which I understand that I will be featured.

By signing this release document (the Release), I confirm that:

1.I’m irrevocably giving my consent to the Producer (and any of its representatives, employees, contractors, successors and/or assignees), to do the following, in connection with, the Project only:

1.1.Record my image and/or my voice, in any visual and/or audio format, including (but not limited to) photos, videos/films, (the Recording);

1.2.Edit, modify, crop, add to, or subtract from the Recording (or any part of it) at your discretion and without my approvals save that the Recording will not represent me in a derogatory manner, including (but not limited to):

  1. to enable it to be published in print and/or on a website, in a film/tv/radio programme or other visual or audio presentation, any or all of which may include other recordings and materials; and/or

  2. to add subtitles or other audio or visual additions or enhancements (e.g. subtitles or graphical illustrations supporting the content and/or purpose for which I am being recorded);

1.3.Use:

  1. my name;

  2. my likeness (e.g. a painting or other image that is intended to look like me);

  3. my voice, including any sympathetic and appropriate adaptation of it;

  4. any biographical or other relevant and appropriate information describing me;

1.4.Print, publish, screen, broadcast, stream, reproduce, and/or display the Recording (or any part of it) in any format, existing or coming into existence in the future; and

1.5.Use or otherwise exploit, and be able to license others to use or otherwise exploit, the Recording (or any part of it) in any place around the world, and in any media, for the full period of any copyrights in it (being up to 70 years from the death of the last of the key individuals involved in the creation of the recording. This use includes integration of the Recording (or any part of it) with any publicity, advertising, sales and promotion of the Project the content/media in which it appears.

2.The Producer is not obliged by me to use the Recording (or any part of it). However, I agree that by using the Recording (or any part of it) in any of the ways described above, the Producer will not be committing any infringement or violation whatsoever relating to any of my personal and/or property rights, and I therefore waive any such claims that I may have had in respect of such rights.

3.The Producer owns at all times now and in the future, all rights, title and interest (including copyright) in the Recording and the Project and is therefore unrestricted from selling or otherwise disposing of the Recording in its sole discretion. I waive any moral rights that I may have in the Recordings, and to the extent that I am now, or at any point in the future, deemed to own any other rights (including copyright) in the Recording, I hereby assign (by way of future assignment) all such rights to the Producer.

4.I warrant that:

4.1.I have full power to enter into this Release;

4.2.I am over the age of eighteen; and

4.3.the terms of this Release do not in any way conflict with any existing commitment that I have.

5.Reference to "the Recording" in this release includes:

  1. any part of the Recording;

  2. all edited versions of it, or any part of it, made by the Producer; and

  3. any previously recorded material of me (or a part of it) made by the Producer.

6.This Release represents the entire agreement between the Producer and me and completely subsumes any and all prior written or verbal representations, discussions and accords that may have taken place between us. Additionally, except as agreed within its terms, the Release does not grant any third parties any rights over the terms, rights, powers and obligations contained within it.

7.The Release is created and agreed according to the law of England and WalesScotland, the courts of which shall be the relevant and competent courts to resolve any disputes between the parties.