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"Image release" form required for college student's apartment lease

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Complete Idiot
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My daughter will move off campus next year and the apartment complex sent this among the many documents to sign for the lease. This is really odd and reads like they want the renter to someday become famous so they can own all media output of that person. Won't sign this - this can't be typical?

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IMAGE RELEASE ADDENDUM
I hereby irrevocably consent to and authorize the use by the LANDLORD, of any and all photographs, video, voice recordings, or other media taken of me including derivative works thereof (collectively, the "Images"), and any reproduction of them in any form in any media whatsoever, whether now known or hereafter created, throughout the world in perpetuity. I also consent to the use of my name or likeness, or an assigned fictitious name, in connection with the exhibition, distribution, merchandising, advertising, exploiting and/or publicizing of Images or the property. I hereby release and discharge the LANDLORD, its trustees, officers, employees, licensees, and affiliates from any and all claims, actions, suits or demands of any kind or nature whatsoever, in connection with the use of Images and the reproduction thereof as aforesaid. I understand and agree that the LANDLORD will be the exclusive owner of all rights, including, but not limited to, all copyrights, in and to the Images in whole or part, throughout the universe, in perpetuity, in any medium now known or hereafter developed, and to license others to so use them in any manner the LANDLORD may determine in its sole discretion, without any obligation to me. I hereby waive any right that I may have to inspect and/or approve the use of the Images or any reproductions thereof, by the LANDLORD.
Agreed to this on 11/05/2024
ChrisHansen
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AG
Never seen that or anything like it on any lease I've ever signed with an apartment.
agnerd
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AG
Cross that paragraph out before signing. If the landlord refuses, tell him to rewrite it to be specific to what media he plans to record and what the use of it will be. I'm not sure that that statement doesn't allow him to install hidden cameras and record your kid.
CS78
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Never heard of that.

Sounds like you're agreeing not to sue them if they use pics of her at the apartment pool party, in their marketing.

Apartments are on every corner. Tell them you don't agree and move along if you don't like it.
Buck Compton
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Sounds like a ****ty lawyer wrote that. It didn't limit it to images that the landlord takes.

The intent is pretty clearly that if they take a photo at a pool party or something, you have no rights to it and can't sue, but the first paragraph is trash.
Complete Idiot
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I'd like to meet who wrote it, it just is a funny form to me. At least be consistent, "throughout the world" and "throughout the universe" - cmon, which is it.
dubi
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agnerd said:

Cross that paragraph out before signing. If the landlord refuses, tell him to rewrite it to be specific to what media he plans to record and what the use of it will be. I'm not sure that that statement doesn't allow him to install hidden cameras and record your kid.
Agree 100% to not sign without crossing out that paragraph.
tmaggie50
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Complete Idiot said:

I'd like to meet who wrote it, it just is a funny form to me. At least be consistent, "throughout the world" and "throughout the universe" - cmon, which is it.
totally agree - I could accept the world, but the universe is simply too much.
Martin Q. Blank
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tmaggie50 said:

Complete Idiot said:

I'd like to meet who wrote it, it just is a funny form to me. At least be consistent, "throughout the world" and "throughout the universe" - cmon, which is it.
totally agree - I could accept the world, but the universe is simply too much.
If your kid is the first to colonize Mars and takes a selfie, the apartment complex may want to show how they got their humble beginnings living in one of their units.
combat wombat™
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It's for the nudie videos he's going to take of your kid through a hidden camera in the bathroom.
Mas89
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Please name this apartment complex. My son's lease had so many pages I honestly did not have time to read the whole damn thing carefully.
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