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They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.
They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.
I wonder how many thousands of people died as a result.
They’re not wrong that democracy’s under threat. But maybe the threat’s from the guy who has literally said he’s going to murder political opponents - y’know, the guy they support.
Expected work hours seem to be increasing everywhere over the last twenty years or so. It’s gotten pretty nuts.
Remember the time - two days ago - when Trump said he was going to ban all electric cars? I wonder how Elon feels about that.
Celebrities get wide latitude to protect themselves from imitators. Impressionists can do “satire” etc. but this isn’t that. It’s explicitly a reference to her voice in the movie, and as such she’s protected by law from them going around her and hiring someone else to imitate her.
It was explicitly represented as her voice when he tweeted “Her” in relation to the product, referencing a movie which she voiced. It’s not a legal grey area in the US. He sank his own ship here.
He tweeted “Her”, which explicitly tells us it’s a deliberate imitation of Scarlett’s voice in that movie. And he tried to negotiate licencing her famous voice, which she rejected.
So it’s more than just a coincidence, it’s deliberate bad faith behaviour. Legally you can’t misrepresent a product as being from a famous person when it wasn’t, and he very much did that. I guess he was hoping she’d give in and accept the licensing agreement post-facto. But instead it looks he’s in legal deep water now.
All this tells me is that they have a great PR department.
Meanwhile Mercedes has already reached level 3.
It’s not uncommon among high level classical musicians apparently.
Personally, I prefer Spotify.
Also Just for Laughs mostly uses people who are already in on the joke, which helps.
It can be. I’ve definitely seen cases which were more high school than a professional workplace.