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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."
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!
That being said, the entire area of Right of Privacy law is fascinating. I was reading through this website and there's some really good meat there for discussion.
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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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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I want to thank you
For giving me the best day of my life.
Sincerely,
Dido
"a singer you've never heard of"
You've gotta be trolling. 21 million copies sold of her debut album, MTV Music awards, BRIT awards, Grammy nominated, #98 best selling of the 21st century, duet with Eminem, music featured in a big movie, song the opening theme of a US TV show, haircut named after her, sold-out world tours...
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 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.
No, you're right on the money. I was looking for one earlier when I read this comment.
I think adding something along the lines of FB's "Like" button could salvage Slashdot's next-to-useless moderation system. You could tie it in with the existing relationship system. Maybe I see comments my friends or (optionally) friends of friends "liked" highlighted, while comments they disliked are buried. Failing that, let me choose to not see moderations by particular users. That could be done without necessarily identifying the moderator.
Of course it would be optional, and I would probably still browse at a low threshold, but it would offer a more refined experience for those who want it without the abuse the current system suffers.
I don't care why you're posting AC
The "duet with Eminem" was actually a illegal use of parts of her song "Thank You" by the rapper. Then when it was explained how much cash she could make and how good it'd be for her, she agreed to sanction it and perform with him.
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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Wait, you guys are siding with a RECORD COMPANY over an ASTRONAUT?
And the record company is SONY?
Is this opposite day?
They play music on MTV? When did this start?