Originally Posted by CDSmith

First contact was made by a lawyer, not the model? That wouldn't sit well with me. Normally that would be costing her hundreds and eventually thousands of dollars to have a lawyer chase down content on hundreds of sites, and it seems very unlikely that she's paying for it that way.

Also, why have signed releases at all if all a model has to do is ask later to have their stuff removed and it's gone? Simply taking stuff down on request really does render the signing and keeping of releases useless.

Had she just contacted the OP herself and asked nicely and with believable reasons I doubt there'd have been an issue. But outright caving in to this request the way it was done does no one any favors. The lawyer goes on thinking he's a baddass, the model gets to have her cake and eat it too, and the actual owner of the content is put out to a large degree.

The better way to go would be to school the lawyer, teach the model a life lesson, maintain your business in accordance with the spirit of why releases get signed.