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Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-me-off-that-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Astronaut Bruce McCandless is suing Dido for her album cover that uses a famous NASA photograph of a tiny, tiny, tiny McCandless floating in space. McCandless doesn't own the copyright on the photo, so he's claiming it's a violation of his publicity rights ... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him."

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  1. Broken News... by LostCluster · · Score: 3, Funny

    A NASA astronaut you've never heard of is suing a signer you've never heard of. We've launched investigations into both of these people and will try to explain who they are. Your Late Local News is next.

    1. Re:Broken News... by mjwx · · Score: 2, Funny

      I mean, I can only name like three or four of her songs from the early 2000s, but "a singer you've never heard of"?! Come on!

      If you've ever heard any of her caterwauling you'd understand why many people actively try to forget who Dido is.

      Further more if I were in any way, directly or indirectly able to be linked to Dido, I'd be suing like the dickens to try to sever that connection too.

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    2. Re:Broken News... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      How many people know who Richard Stallman is?

      Richard... who?

    3. Re:Broken News... by clickety6 · · Score: 3, Funny

      It was a typo. He meant to write "a singer you wish you'd never heard"

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    4. Re:Broken News... by babblefrog · · Score: 4, Funny

      They play music on MTV? When did this start?

  2. New line of work ! by volcan0 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now that they are mostly out of work, they need a way to sustain their hooker needs !

  3. Of Course by longacre · · Score: 3, Funny

    If there were a picture of you under a word closely resembling "Dildo" you'd be upset, too.

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  4. That's why he's suing,so people will know it's him by noidentity · · Score: 5, Funny

    except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him.

    By suing, everyone will know it's him, regardless of how tiny he is in the picture, thus giving him grounds to sue. So if he doesn't sue, he has no grounds to sue, therefore he must sue!

  5. To hell with him! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can see my house in the Earth image. First Google Earth and now this bloody album cover. What ever happened to privacy rights!!!!

  6. Space trolls!!! by syousef · · Score: 4, Funny

    Traditionally trolls have lived under bridges, but it appears that they've infiltrated NASA and are now making their way into outer space!!!

    BE....WARE.....OF....SPACE....TROLLS

    (especially if you're a recording artist)

    You have been warned. We will now return you to your regularly scheduled IP rights battle.

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    1. Re:Space trolls!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Trooolls innnn ssppaaaaaaacccceeeeee......

  7. Re:That's why he's suing,so people will know it's by nacturation · · Score: 5, Funny

    By suing, everyone will know it's him, regardless of how tiny he is in the picture, thus giving him grounds to sue. So if he doesn't sue, he has no grounds to sue, therefore he must sue!

    And what we can't see in the photo is that under the space suit, it's really Chewbacca. Which makes no sense.

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  8. That's McCandless? by phlegmofdiscontent · · Score: 3, Funny

    I could have sworn that was Buzz Aldrin....

  9. Dear Bruce McCandless by tool462 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to thank you
    For giving me the best day of my life.

    Sincerely,
    Dido

    1. Re:Dear Bruce McCandless by Volante3192 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I won't go down with this ship
      And I won't put my hands up and surrender
      There will be no white flag above my lawyer
      I'm in court and always will be...

    2. Re:Dear Bruce McCandless by syousef · · Score: 2, Funny

      But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
      Well I deserve nothing more than I get
      Cos nothing I have is truly mine

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  10. I'm suing too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you look down at the Earth just below and right of McCandless, you can see me looking up shouting at him to get out of my sky.

    1. Re:I'm suing too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      Damn Anonymous Coward Impersonators! Every Slashdot article I read, there's at least 50 of you, all pretending to be me! You're lucky you're anonymous, or I'd sue you to the moon and back! Bastards.

      Signed,

      Anonymous Coward.

  11. Re:That's why he's suing,so people will know it's by MichaelKristopeit+27 · · Score: 2, Funny

    the american justice system... score: 5 "funny because it's true"

  12. In Soviet Russia ... by sseaman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, you guys are siding with a RECORD COMPANY over an ASTRONAUT?

    And the record company is SONY?

    Is this opposite day?