In Canada do you need a model release in order to publicly display (or sell) a photo of somebody as your artwork?
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Yes, especially if you receive monetary gain from the photo.
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If you are using it just for an art gallery where you are not gaining any monies you don't need one. In Canada a model has to commission photos or have their own personal arrangements with their photographer in order to have copyright controls over the images. If you aren't making money from the photo, not using it to advertise anything for sale and are using it for personal or art gallery use you can go without a model release form. I always make my models sign one anyways, just in case I do decide down the line to make any money from portrait photography
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It depends upon how you are displaying/selling the photograph. If you are saying "this is a photograph I took at [place], [time]" i.e it is a historical record, then you do not need a release. But if it is in some way manipulated, or is used to communicate something other than "this is what I saw and photographed", then you need a release. If you want to create art, or to sell as "clip art" or as part of a commercial, then you need a release.
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