(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Model Release Agreement

IMPORTANT NOTICE

This agreement was drafted by a software developer based on his past experiences across software, service, and agriculture industries.

Like all legal documents, YOU MUST ALWAYS ENGAGE A LAWYER TO VALIDATE ITS FEASIBILITY.

NEVER ASSUME WHEN DEALING WITH LEGAL TRANSACTIONS.

A published baseline model release agreement in various formats for quickly release a model from a media content (example: person/pet in an image or video).

Business Reasons

This project was initiated for 3 reasons:

1. Most model release forms are tied to entities - it's rare to find a public usable version; AND
2. Too much drama when a media is used for commercial project; AND
3. Most agreements are not that clear about its terms with fancy languages.

Version Controlled

This agreement is version controlled using semantic versioning definitions where:

1. the MAJOR version denotes major legal changes; AND
2. the MINOR version denotes minor changes without altering the legal implication side of things such as but not limited to grammar correction, fonts, typo, and etc; AND
3. the PATCH version denotes the repository management changes such as but not limited to new language addition, updating README.md, and etc.

By default, the agreement is always using the latest and greatest. If you want a specific version, download that agreement file and include it into your product repository.

Agreement Nature

To comply with PlainLanguage.gov, You have to read the license files directly. It must be easily readable for any general public audience without assistance.

If you cannot parse or understand any part of the license, that means the license has not fully achieve the guideline yet. In that case, please file a query issue.

Supported Languages

Currently these are the supported languages.

1. International English (en)
2. 国际简单华语 (zh-hans)

Credits

These are the official stewards of the license:

1. (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho - principal author and reviewer.

These are the folks who indirectly improve this license upto a considerable quality either by resources sharing or scanning:

1. Bruce Payne - for relentlessly providing license drafting guidances and emotional positivity.
2. Anthropic's Claude AI - for providing a lot of great inputs for me to fine-tune clauses and clues for hunting for actual legal resources.

Publication License

This workspace and repository is published under Creative Common CC-BY-ND 4.0.

Reference & Download Source

The latest license files shall be referenced and be downloadable from:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13997193