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General Stock Discussion / Re: model might try to sue me
« on: December 11, 2014, 17:54 »
Late to this conversation. Just to share, I had a similar incident a couple years back. Some of the model's shots appeared on a softcore website and the model requested I remove the entire shoot from my agencies. I explained that our contract prohibited the photographer (me) from using the photos in any disreputable fashion and that I had maintained that covenant by marketing only through reputable agencies who also prohibit such usage. She needed to go to the end user and work her way back rather than start with me to move forward through the selling and reselling, posting and reposting of her (my) images.
Fortunately it never went further.
Since then I always inform models who pose in provocative shoots that, despite my best efforts to protect their rights, in this age of infinite and immediate reproduction the only 100% effective way to protect your images is not to pose in the first place. Just ask Jennifer Lawrence.
I wish this victimized photographer well but frankly I don't think the model has an ice-cube's chance in hell in a US court as far as getting a monetary judgment against the photog.
Fortunately it never went further.
Since then I always inform models who pose in provocative shoots that, despite my best efforts to protect their rights, in this age of infinite and immediate reproduction the only 100% effective way to protect your images is not to pose in the first place. Just ask Jennifer Lawrence.
I wish this victimized photographer well but frankly I don't think the model has an ice-cube's chance in hell in a US court as far as getting a monetary judgment against the photog.