ParanoidObsessive posted...
The point is more that you shouldn't need permission from a tattoo artist if you've literally gotten image rights from the person whose skin the tattoo is literally on. Or worse, ARE the person whose skin the tattoo is literally on.
It's becoming a more common thing with sports video games where tattoo artists are suing because athletes get scanned into video games. And those artists should basically be loaded into a very large rocket and fired directly into the sun.
They're not brilliant geniuses who need their intellectual property protected so they can profit from it in the future, they're fucking work-for-hire needle jockeys. At this point the ones who sue are basically just this side of patent trolls.
Disney's sort of changing tactics because it's getting harder for them to prolong copyright forever. They're starting to lean more heavily into general rights ownership, locking down trademarks, and making the live-action remakes (which sort of "reset" various IP concepts) to essentially make it impossible to do anything with their intellectual property even if it does enter public domain.
Majority consensus rarely matters if someone with enough money can bribe enough lawmakers in enough influential jurisdictions.
Yeah then then those ones deserve absolutely nothing.