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If you don't want your image being used broadly without your control, then don't become a model for playboy. Ultimately she was paid fairly for the rights to her image and so that's that. It is completely fair use and hearing about how she should be able to somehow universally dictate the usage afterwards is boring. If the copyright holder wishes to issue takedowns they can do so, nobody elses opinion on the topic matters whatsoever, including hers.

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Sorry, is there some shortage of other pictures on the Internet? Do you only do the right thing when you're legally or contractually forced to do so? Were you expecting a Playboy model in the 70's to anticipate the Internet when she signed that contract?!

Just use a different image. It's a pretty simple ask. For fuck's sake, this shouldn't be so hard to understand with a tiny shred of human empathy.

There's a shortage of photos that have a 50 year history in the field. By using this image you can compare directly to the 1973/4 paper. Using some other stock photo won't let you do that.

This is ignoring that the photo itself is completely innocuous. People who complain about the Lena photo, I suspect that 99.9% of them have absolutely no problem with AOC's appearance at the Met Gala in her Eat Mor Chikin dress. Which, from a perspective of propriety, there is no possible differentiation from the Lena photo. Their complaint has to do with the photo's origins, not with the photo itself. And, sorry, but the world isn't ruled by the pearl clutchers on their fainting couches.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/the-scene/met-gala/...

Are you going to go back and update all the reports over the last 50 years and update them? That is not an easy ask.

It's like asking Americans to use metric.

Yeah, it's not rocket science. It's also not about objectification or diversity or whatever, the picture is 100% innocuous. But if the model does not want to, just don't fucking use it, your paper will be fine.

It's still a dick move. Just because being a dick is legal does not mean it is free of consequences.

So your opinion on the topic doesnt matter whatsoever either

I'm not the one trying to dictate who does and doesn't use it.

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