“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 )
Uh. Whoa. What the hell? I mean. Whoa.
ReplyDeleteYeah.
Whoa.
The liquid-hoff, or the German video?
ReplyDeleteWhere in the name of all that is holy are you finding this stuff? Here I was, just starting to recover from those Finnish people. And now I fear that I am permanently scarred.
ReplyDeleteIt is my gift. It is my curse.
ReplyDeleteAnd more than that, they come from my friends, who come and go on the waves of teh intareb zeitgeist, frolicking like drunken gnomes.