Snyder has used some variation of the Gladiator wheat field scene so many times now it’s just comical. Once is an homage. Multiple times is bereft of imagination.

I know. I said that:

The 2008 strike was WGA, not SAG. Trebek was in SAG, not the WGA. Today both are striking. Seriously, just... look up shit before saying dumb shit.

Wow, you’re fucking stupid. 

As shandrakor mentioned, the Network Code is a separate contract than the TV/Theatrical contract. While it’s getting blurred now with streaming, broadcast TV was always handled differently because it was local TV channels paying their workers through their network of local network channels that are paying a network for…

Trebek did not host during any SAG strike. He was a SAG member, and there is no separate union for game show hosts. He hosted during the 2007-2008 WGA strike because he contractually had to. He wasn’t a WGA member and had to fulfil his broadcast contract which falls under a different SAG code. The show did the same…

Not surprising it was Busto. He has a history online, particularly on twitter, where he has many accounts and was most recently stalking Amber Heard. He has had multiple run ins with the law, including enticement of children for indecent purposes, indecent exposure, bizarre incidents in two banks in one day where just…

Snyder is the main writer on it. So it’s going to be dumb. 

So much lovingly touching grain.

Rotoscoping is transformative work which may be considered commercial fair use depending on the level of transformation.

Big corps that want to utilize AI to not have to pay artists do donate to political campaigns though, unfortunately.

I know Twitter is a cesspool to begin with, but A LOT of the AIbros there very much say artists are just pissed because they won’t be special anymore and say shit like, ‘boo hoo, now you’re going to have to get a real job.’ They claim they’re “democratizing” art and taking it out of the hands of a protected class and…

In the case in question, Thaler was making a very specific, and dumb, argument: that because he owns the machine, the AI art it generates should be his copyright under the work for hirer clause. He outright stated he had no hand in creating the art and that the machine did it completely autonomously. He was basically…

In the case you describe it would be copyrightable. You took the original footage and it doesn’t matter how much you manipulate the sequence via AI algorithms, so long as the original footage is discernable, you would own the copyright. Assuming, obviously, you don’t turn the guy into a known copyrighted cartoon…

It seems clear that DeSantis really thought he was going to be the next big thing in the Republican party, even win the Presidential election, and be able to walk away from the shitshow he has made in Florida. Now that his campaign is utterly cratering it’s dawning on him that he is going to have to face the lawsuits…

Eh, a lot of Trump appointees have been ruling against Republican policies in the last couple years, to the chagrin of Republicans. Outside of completely incompetent shills, like Cannon, most judges don’t want to appear to be idiots and, more importantly, now that they’re appointed, they don’t want to be seen as…

And there have been shark movies since Jaws that understand that, like 47 Meters Down and The Shallows, and maybe even Deep Blue Sea

They don’t get residuals from streaming, which is the only place Chuck currently exists, which is the whole point of the strike. They would be promoting people to go watch their show on a AMPTP streaming service, which are the very people they are striking... because they don’t get residuals from them. A strike is a…

The “harm” in promoting past projects is that they are all owned and distributed, and now streamed, by the the same AMPTP studios you are striking. It’s particularly problematic when a huge focus of the strike is that streaming has robbed everyone, at every level of production, from getting the residuals the vast…

Conventions, which there are hundreds of now, and selling autographs and pics is actually a signifcant part of the income of working actors. They don’t do it to meet their fans. Levi even pointed that out in tweet on July 16th: