She wasn’t using them, she was “inspired” by them. Just like all the other times she has been inspired by other’s work.

Did they really think that just because he’s dead everything he did is up for grabs free of charge? Well, I guess I can sample some Micheal, Whitney and Prince under fair use then.

Rich people stay rich by not spending their money on trivial things, such as service-industry tipping or compensating artists for their creations

I understand that the lawyers’ job is to deny and downplay in attempts to minimize or negate a pay out, however if anyone attempted to monetize images or 6 sec clips of Beyonce without compensation there is not a planet on which they would consider that “fair use”. I’m sure they will come to a reasonable settlement.

Wait, she never got permission/ paid for those samples?!

I always thought he said, what happened after New Orleans and I fucking love it. It sets the tone for he rest of the song, to me.

Had this exact thought after reading the title of the post. But, nah...to many brown people involved.

Right? Like maybe I’d treat the anti-choice folks like the actually have a valid stance if they stood up to shit like this. But they don’t, and won’t. Fuck those cunts.

This white feminist thinks you are being to polite. They are evil bitches. That whole ‘spawn of satan’ thing? Projection, projection, projection.

So, the prolifers are all over this, right? Like, marching in the streets and the like? /s

Up to zero years, Republicans are all about it. As soon as they break through. They need to go to jail. It’s what these bitches do because they need to make sure their benefactors get paid. War doesn’t work without bodies.

I ain’t got my bail money just right, so i’mma have to leave the Root alone for a moment before I catch a case.

I am a gay man who lived through the worst of the AIDS crisis. By the time I graduated from my freshman year of college I had had six boyfriends (some of them in high school) and a dozen or so one-night stands. None of us used condoms. I spun the roulette wheel and I won, I’m HIV- and so is my formerly equally-slutty…

Michael, did I miss something? “They have been removed from providing patient care”....this reads like weren’t fired but transferred.

*takes off earrings* *slips out of shoes* *cracks neck*

This is risky behavior, that’s for sure,but I’m almost certain that the next big virus that wipes out millions while leaving many more dealing with lifelong health issues will come to us courtesy of anti-vaxxers not orgy goers.

Starred at the very least for “clutch your anal beads.”

There are other infections besides HIV/AIDS - not life threatening, but not fun, and some lifelong chronic infections. Viral STIs can be transferred even *with* condom use. So while I want people to be liberated, satisfied, creative and curious in their sex lives, having contact with a dozen people who have had…

Yep, exactly. Rich’s last piece on teens and HIV back in July nicely dodged this point in favor of ‘yay, sex!’, and this one isn’t any better with the one line throwaway (“At sex parties themselves, by the way, STIs are rarely a topic of conversation”).

There are blackout and sex parties at every gay bar in my city at least once a month, and I still can’t get behind the new prep culture of bareback anonymous sex. It’s a complete slap in the face to everybody who fought for AIDS research and awareness for decades. And in this political climate I can’t help but point…