Liberatoria

Good Morning Marco! The guidelines Adobe gives include that no release is needed when the content does not show identifiable individuals,  such as in large crowds, back views with no recognizable features or far away small and blurry. But keep in mind that even a small brand logo in a tennis shoe will flag the shot for rejection. 

The reality is that the moderators are humans using their own discretion to approve or reject work.  And my experience has been than one moderator may reject your work, and a few days later when I STRONGLY believe it was the wrong decision it gets approved, and I suspect by a different moderator.

My advice is to be wise picking your battles, I don’t mess with lack of model rejections ever, even when I don’t agree with a rejection.  With places is very different, it is my opinion have AI tools that help them find very small logo’s or brand sings that I missed seeing the first time. So make the habit of looking closely to remove this branding, that today also using AI tools are super easy to remove.

Have a great day!

If Model or Property Releases are requested by Adobe Stock, you must provide the signed release forms.

There’s no way to appeal the Reviewer’s decisions.

• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/get-started/manage-your-account/intellectual-property-violation.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/content-policies-guidelines/model-property-releases/model-release-overview.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/content-policies-guidelines/model-property-releases/download-model-release.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/content-policies-guidelines/model-property-releases/model-release-requirements.html

You don’t really need one unless, upon enlargement, they would become recognizable, such as if they were wearing unique and distinguishable clothing that a person wearing that clothing might recognize themselves. Or maybe their hair is dyed in a unique manner. Any number of things. If in doubt, remove them. At least that would be my take on the issue.