She has a good attitude about what happened, but the original photographer should have told her she was signing a release form. A good lawyer could probably help her collect some of the earnings.
—”A good lawyer could probably help her collect some of the earnings.”
Any guess as to the big bucks from the photo sale?
My guess is somewhere between zero and not much?
It’s called reading the contract and the small print.
If you sign a release, you waive your rights. The only way she could make a legal argument would be if her face were used in pornography.
I have done photo work and without a release the photographer can be sued for simply publishing a photograph. My art needs to be protected.
Of course the model is compensated with either money or port photos in payment, making it a legal transaction so the model cannot claim later that he/she was not compensated.