“Okay.”

“The photo’s been licensed and sublicensed about nine times. The agency in New York got it from a smaller agency that got it from a stringer who got it in October of 2021 from — nobody will say.

Somewhere in the chain it got tagged as editorial-cleared and after that everybody downstream is buying in good faith.

“I was a minor. Nobody got consent from anybody. She says I have a real claim and she also says it would take two to four years and cost more than a hundred thousand dollars, and that the most likely outcome is a settlement with a confidentiality clause and the picture stays in the libraries anyway, because you can’t put it back.”

“Then we spend the money.”

“Dad.”