• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I mean, that’s more than reasonable. The video poster made over 13k in ad revenue and merch sales, against the person’s wishes. Imagine if someone made you go viral, and then sold merch with your name and face on it. It’s a privacy nightmare.

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      3 days ago

      That’s how facebook made hundreds of billions of dollars. This guy was a legit artist who got sucker-punched by the courts for not getting contracts signed by everyone in-frame.

      It should be one or the other not one for billionaires, zero for artists. But - whatever the German is for c’est la vie.