copyright laws were made to give incentive to people to make new and unique creative works. The maker of the copyright is given a certain amount of time in which she has the exclusive right to reproduce and sell their works. In the case of photos, the person who took the photo has the copyright, not the person being photographed, though this person has to at least give their permission for the photographic image to be sold or purblished. Typically the model will also be compensated.So the copyright for the Rawat photos are either held by the photographer who took them or the organisation, for example Elan Vital, if the photographer was working for EV.
Some copyright concessions are granted to protect the freedoms we take for granted in a democracy.
1. The person who purchases a copyrighted material has the right to resell it. So you are allowed to resell the photos of Rawat you bought, but are not allowed to make 50 copies of them and sell the copies. This is the whole thing behind music piracy. You can sell your own copy of music you buy but you can't copy it for someone else officially and you certainly can't sell copies of it.
2. Fair use. One is allowed to use short excerpts of works for purposes of commentary, criticism, review etc.. So you are allowed to use the works in a limited way. An important criteria is that you aren't making money by copying or publishing the works. I'm not an expert, but I think that the photos and quotes used on the website would fall under fair use.
3. Copyrights don't last forever. They have a limited time, but the ones on the website would still be in effect.
