[hackersword]

Don't know if it is true or not, or how affects claim ... but he claims

>Elden says his parents never signed a release authorising the use of his image on the album.

[lazyasciiart]

A written signed document is not the only way to make a legal agreement, it's just the most easily referenced and proven one. The parents consented to letting a professional photographer take photos of their child to use in commercial work, and nobody appears to dispute that.