“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 )
This is interesting. Any chance there's a return to the States in your future? You are, after all, an expert in the ways of the barbaric West... er, east, really.
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It is unlikely; I am still well-and-largely-happily entrenched here in Osaka, and a return stateside is not on my list of immediate desires. Ping me in mail if you want the sordid details.
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