“Our legendary personalities are evergreen ‘brands’ with the benefit of worldwide recognition,” reads a message on the Richman agency’s website. Guardian UK Article *vomits* Where is the line drawn between “public figure” and “celebrity”? How can a dead person have an agent, particulary where there are no specific works concerned other than a sense of character? It’s one thing to insist that Duck Soup is a work that should be protected (which any more simply means controlled by whomever has the most buX0rs), but shouldn’t personalities and such pass into the public domain as well? ( boingboing : Bill Gates 0wns Einstein, Groucho , Freud, Asimov, Fuller, et al )
I feel like this should be e-mailed to every inbox in Kansas. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteWe'll see if we can't get Sean going door-to-door.
ReplyDeleteDude, Sean really doesn't deserve that. In fact, nobody does. I've been to Kansas. *shudders* Small town Kansas. E-mail is the safer, saner option, believe me.
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