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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."
That too-high fly boy needs to get his feet back on rhe ground and start breathing some oxygen. Whatever common sense he got, he surely lost it in space.
It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
I've heard of Dido only once about 10 years ago because a coworker liked her music. I haven't listened to any of her songs that I'm aware of.
But just to play devil's advocate and provide some perspective for you...
There are 6.8 billion people in the world and she sold only 21 million albums. Only 0.3 percent of the population has bought her stuff. She doesn't seem to be that popular.
MTV caters to a very narrow subset of musical genres and artists. There's far more in the musical landscape than what they represent.
I have no idea what that is.
That doesn't mean much. The Grammys are the opposite of the MTV music awards as there are Grammys for all types of music, even polka. And nominated doesn't mean they won. Many artists have been nominated.
#98 world wide counting all countries music sales across all genres?
Isn't Eminem a rapper/hip-hop artist? There are a lot of people who don't listen to that. For example, I listen to jazz and classical. I'd be hard pressed to name more than a couple of artists outside of those two genres. For example, I couldn't name any other rappers except for Ice-T (because he's in Law and Order) and Timbaland (because he was on slashdot having been caught as a plagiarist).
I've never seen a movie where they display the name of the song and artist currently playing. If you didn't know of the song beforehand, you won't magically know the artist just because it was playing in a movie.
There are thousands of US TV shows. Not everyone watches the same ones.
Is that a measure of success? I can't think of any haircuts with names other than a crew cut.
This is only of note to people who have heard of her and want to buy her product. The same can be said of many artists that most of us have never heard of. Lana Lane has had several sold-out world tours. I doubt most people have heard of her.
Cory Doctorow talking about cloud computing makes as much sense as George W Bush talking about electrical engineering.
If it delays the release of another of her albums full of coma-inducing, obnoxious whining shit, then that's GOT to be worth it.
For the good of music and of mankind as a whole, let's hope he succeeds!
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