“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 )
Classic.
ReplyDeleteDid I tell you about the Canadian gal who claimed to be so good at accents she could tell right away that we were from the States? (I think wee Kiera's burnt orange University of Texas Longhorns t-shirt was the bigger give-away.) Uh huh. Lady said I sounded like I must be from Wisconsin. Yeah. Chicagoans sound just like folks from New Orleans. Uh-huh. And something about South Dakota (Chris' home state) being right down there near Alabama. Riiight.
accents: FAIL
geography: FAIL
Plus we all have guns.
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