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Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover
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."
even how to pronounce her name
Just like the first queen of Carthage.
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thats the hipster / avant garde / indie in you speaking. now be a bit less objectively ignorant.
decent music can be decent music. plain. simple.
not everything pop-culture-radio-jocks squeeze out is shit.
It's a picture of a spacesuit .... McCandless happened to be the occupant but it is impossible to tell that from the photo ....
If I take a picture of a 747 can all the occupants sue me?
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Perhaps it is a plot from the record industry to get people to download the cover, so they can sue everybody who saw it and not only the bittorrent people. That way they can eliminate this pesky thing called Internet that screw over their business plan.
You might think it would be legal to see the picture and have it in your cache, but you also might think it is legal to have a copy of work you bought. They have the money, they make the rules.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Maybe he should pay back all the US tax dollars it cost to get him there in the first place? Then we can talk about publicity rights ...
Rich.
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