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Well she sold the rights to the image. Even if technical restrictions were possible, it wouldn't matter because she isn't the owner of the image.

As far as technically - given this was published in a paper magazine, it would be pretty impossible to prevent duplication - the so-called "analog hole"

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ignore the specific case here - I am talking about the general case...

Fair enough - DRM is a thing. Its not typically the most robust thing, but people have certainly tried and modern cpus have secure enclaves that make implementing such a thing sort of fesible (see for example widevine).

However ultimately at some point, you have to convert the image to photons to look at it, and its pretty hard to prevent someone from taking a photo of those photons. I guess you could require every camera to auto recognize copyrighted work and refuse (think EURion constellation or Cinavia) but that is pretty orwellian and you still have plain old analog cameras.

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