I’ve been thinking about open licensed photos and model releases. True, licensing and model releases are separate issues, but the discussion is relevant if you want to use open licensed photos that have people in them.
Some open photo repositories don’t deal with this at all (e.g. Flickr and Wikimedia Commons only sort of, while others (e.g. OpenPhoto.net) don’t include pictures with people.
I tweeted a question about this and Creative Commons pointed me to Joi Ito’s Free Souls Model Release. Great resource. And, of course, this is CC licensed so we can adapt as needed. Thanks, Joi!
Open photos and model releases