If you don't want to be on the cover, don't pose naked...

Maxim Cover Girl Protests May 16th - 3:10pm NEW YORK (AP) - Czech model Veronica Varekova says the upcoming issue of Maxim magazine unlawfully uses a photograph of her scantily clad on its cover. [WTOP News]

This is the point where I start wondering if our public figures are just a little too full of themselves. In the old days when a model signed a release, the photos could be used just about any way the photographer wanted. If the photographer wanted to sell them, it was up to the buyer to meet the price. It appears that this is what happened here - there was a business transaction.

If you don't want your half naked picture on the cover of a magazine, then don't pose that way (it would be different if the picture had been obtained under less appropriate circumstances). British GQ, Victoria's Secret catalog or Maxim - they are all catering to the same demographic, whether the model wishes to acknowledge it or not.

At the core, she is looking for exposure. Now she has it.