Oops - I confused this story with another I read yesterday, and waited a few hours to type the reply. Nevermind...

PS. I still wouldn't be shocked if it turns out to be a sleazy photog who padding his stock photos, but far more likely TVX just saved money grabbing a freebie off the Internet sans release. No telling where they found it...

I don't see the original article on Telegraph, but Handful posted

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Last year Lara e-mailed the picture to an art website, which displays work from photography students across the UK.

Her mother, Christine, had taken the photograph

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If TVX actually has a model release from having bought that photo, then they have a shot of surviving unless the release she sent the art website was unusually narrow. Most such sites use as broad a release as possible to protect themselves.

There's a lot of sleaze at the bottom of the photo market. Corbis and Getty are expensive - that pic alone from either would likely cost more than the entire production budget of this release - but it saves you from this kind of fiasco.