Photo release question

Hey Recruiters-

We are launching a Facebook page at the company I work for to help us with recruiting. For those of you with corporate Facebook pages, how are you dealing with the issue of photo releases? Our legal consult is telling us that we must make every person sign a photo release form, so we've been bringing them to all of our events; it is a bit painful. Does anybody have a better method?

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Permalink Reply by Jim Durbin on January 20, 2009 at 3:11pm

Only publish pictures where people not employees can be distinguished. Also avoid taking pictures of logos of other companies.

This is one of those asinine areas of the law where everyone breaks it, but it only matters if you're the one who gets caught.

Improve how you take the pictures, and you should be okay. You should also go back to the lawyer and clarify the purpose of the pictures.

You can't publish photographs of someone in an ad, but you can put them on a website if they are art, or news. It would seem to me that showing someone at an event is news, and not an advertisement in the strict definition. I'm not a lawyer, but you should check again, and get an executive on your side before doing so (It also matters which state you are in).