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Originally Posted by Lester Burnham
As I tell clients all the time when they receive annoying cease and desists letters with questionable claims:
"You can fight it and probably win, but you'll spend hours upon hours dealing with it, and potentially need to pay lawyers to write letters back and forth (or worse, litigation) at the tune of $300+/hour. Model photos are commodities, i.e., a dime a dozen, so take the 5 minutes to remove the image and move on."
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Are you an attorney? If so, I'm not surprised by the bad advice. You're missing the point that there is almost never anything to fight or any reason to run scared like that. When a former model calls up or sends an email or rarely sends a form letter from an attorney friend they only hope that you'll immediately cave in. 99.9% of them have no money and zero intention of ever following up with actual litigation.
It's real easy to politely tell former models that you have sold, re-sold and licensed the content a million different ways to entities and web sites out of your control and that it's completely out of your hands if they have your number and call you up on the telephone to put you on the spot. If they email, or have a form letter sent, it's real easy to just ignore it completely as you can almost guarantee that absolutely nothing will happen after that.
And, as I mentioned earlier- if it only does take you five minutes to "pull content", then you have no business to speak of and no idea what you are doing as a webmaster.