I wasnt sure where to put this so i just thought id put it here ok does anyone no if it is nessecary to have some sort of consent and release agreement on your site for users to submit content. could someone please let me know thanks.
It varies quite a bit depending on the content, how it's going to be used, the country you're in, etc.
(I'm no legal expert) but I wouldn't of thought you'd need people to sign a form as such. If you read Orkut's Ts & Cs, they state:
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By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display such Materials.
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