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That's the problem with proving who owns the rights now that we live in a digital world. In the old days whoever had the negatives and chromes you knew pretty much was your man. Now with all the digital stuff there is no way to tell except seeing the original model releases, and such.
Its a really, really big problem with ownership. I've had incidents where we bought content and had photographers claim it was theirs when it wasn't. There was a guy a few years back that was sending out e-mails to tons of webmasters threatening lawsuits if they didn't pay him a license fee. Some webmasters fell for the scam and paid this fucker. He knew if he sent out a zillion e-mails someone would fall for it and they did.
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