Nestle lost a $15m suit because it forgot a consent form for a model. A girl from Africa settled a case for an undisclosed amount from a photo taken in Africa,

Nestle lost a $15m suit because it forgot a consent form for a model. A girl from Africa settled a case for an undisclosed amount from a photo taken in Africa, in the LA courts because her image was used for advertising without her consent, this happened over a decade later IIRC when she'd moved to the US and was in the process of becoming a model. You, in general, don't have to have consent to take a photograph of a persons property, because property cannot be defamed in any way. However, making money off of a photograph of someone else without their consent opens you up to a whole host of civil suits that by tort law has almost always been a loser for the photographer. Not to mention the automated nature of Street View has let a way too many images of semi-naked/naked photos of people onto the internet without their consent, including one of a child, which should never have gotten online to begin with, but legally speaking should never have been photographed to begin with, but we're talking civil violation of the law here and not criminal so I won't go onto this.