Model releases are also a fuzzy area.
"The legal issues surrounding model releases are complex and vary by jurisdiction."
"The legal issues surrounding model releases are complex and vary by jurisdiction."
It's generally pretty well established that a properly executed model release provides a pretty wide latitude of commercial usage--although one can always come up with corner cases, e.g. use of a photo in a context that implies the subject is a drug addict or something similar.
By contrast, there's very little legal precedent around the scope of property rights in commercial photography.