Very true. He would have a claim if someone had photographed him with a telescopic lens in his home. In many cities you could captured on camera a couple dozen times a day and it is legal because in public there is no expectation of privacy. You can be seen or photographed by anyone. Right or wrong celebrities have even fewer rights than regular people.
How about the fact that he is an ugly son of a bitch? Can ANY photo of this mug be "flattering"? If he is going to sue over this then he should sue anyone who ever takes a photo of him. (That is if it doesn't break their camera!)
This has been going on since the early days of television. First there was "The Addams Family" then came "The Munsters". Then "Diff'rent Strokes" followed by "Webster" The list goes on.
My point exactly. By finally reluctantly lowering the price they made probably hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. They are acting against their own and the artist's interest. Songs that have not been hits for years are not making anyone much money. A few "best of" box sets is about it. To price them so high that they will earn nothing from DVD sales is ridiculous. Instead many will pirate marginal quality TV rips who would gladly pay for DVDs.
This seems to be the same reasoning the music industry uses in charging such high prices for licensing that DVD's will never be released for so many great old TV shows. When "Married with Children" was released the cost was so high for the song "Love and Marriage" that they replaced it with a kind of "sounds like" instrumental on most seasons. We are talking about a 50 year old song! They would rather charge so much that it means no sale at all than to charge a price that is market driven. On the series that are released, how many more sales would they make if prices for the DVD's could be low enough that many more people would buy them? I remember when movies first were released to VCR the price for one film was usually $100 or more. Remember, this was 1980's dollars! They eventually learned that few would pay that.
How do we know that any of this money is actually going to the artists? The recording industry has a long history of ripping off musicians. There have been many of the great pioneers of rock that made millions for the record companies who died in poverty. Here is a great video by an entertainment attorney explaining how an artist could sell a million albums and still be in the hole after all the fees are deducted. It is nothing short of racketeering. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcwgdB0NltY
I remember a long time ago (I think around mid 80's) in the US there was a push for a "piracy" tax on blank cassette tapes. I remember signing petitions protesting this. As far as I know they never successful in enacting this tax. Anyone else remember this?
I have been recording programs and fast forwarding through commercials since I bought my first VCR 30 years ago. In that time I have taped almost everything I watched rarely watched anything off the air. That means for every hour of programing time I have saved about 12 to 16 minutes of wasted time. Ballpark figuring that amounts to up to probably well over a year of my life I have not wasted on their annoying commercials.
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