OK good to know!aebrown wrote:That is true, but there is one important note regarding nonmembers: There is a separate Annual History Consent Form specifically for nonmembers which includes this wording: "Although I am not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (“the Church”), I authorize the Church and its affiliated entities to collect, process, use, and transfer to other countries and/or legal entities my personal information and/or photograph as used in creating a local history of the Church (“History”)."jdlessley wrote:None of the annual history forms are used to get permission from Church members to use photos of the member or that include the member.
So as I see it, there is no requirement for permission to use photographs taken of members in the annual history. This is not a published history, after all. So the questions about posting on social media are certainly good questions, but you are not going to get much help from the annual history forms or documentation.
Apparently we can use this form as an example. https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/c ... elease.pdf to create our own. I called the churches Intellectual property office and received excellent answers to my questions. We need to create this form to protect our selves. We can file it as we think should be done, but we need to remember that it is for the protection of the individual or individuals that are responsible for the group or site. Some wards use this form to move on to the ward's annual history.