From: info-block@northern-data-tech.net   
      
   I'm a photographer who recently photographed a model.   
      
   I made the mistake of not getting her to sign a model release.   
      
   This week she angrily objected to me publishing images of her on   
   Imagekind.com, a big art and photography Web site. The images are   
   available on that site for purchase as art prints and art cards. She   
   asked me for a 10- or 15-percent royalty on pictures that I sell of her,   
   unless the images are in my paintings.   
      
   Who owns the copyright, given the fact that there's no model release   
   signed by her?   
      
   Her Craigslist ad that I responded to said she wanted "$25 an hour or   
   trade for copies".   
      
   She told me later that she'd be happy to get six or seven good,   
   low-resolution photos emailed to her per shoot. We did two shoots and I   
   emailed to her about 100 edited photos out of the 500 or so pictures I   
   made of her, but she demanded that email her all of the unedited photos   
   as well.   
      
   She's accusing me of breaching our verbal contract.   
      
   She said she only authorized me to use her image in my paintings, but   
   also wrote by email to me she would permit me to use her images in my   
   paintings so she could get a reproduction print that was based on the   
   painting(s), so she was indirectly authorizing me to print prints as well.   
      
   (I'm a fine artist and photographer who creates paintings, art prints   
   and photo art prints. This was the first time I have used a model in my   
   photographs and art.)   
      
   Robert   
      
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