If a character is meant to look animated (i.e. clearly not a “real” character, say Pixar characters), then facial animations (and designs, and vocalizations) SHOULD BE EXAGGERATED.

but one of them is literally the child of a death watch leader (and is played by the same actor).

Yes, you’re right, it’s more complicated with adapted works. Obviously a separate contract would have to be made with the author of the work being adapted, who would retain all copyright to their book.

The movie example was simply to show the different standards in similar industries; for literary authors, they almost always retain the copyright to their work (as you said, for film adaptations they would only be licensing the film rights to a studio).

I just wonder what the standard practice is in the tattooing industry. Like, if I go into a tattoo parlor and ask them for a contract that assigns all rights to me, are they gonna laugh me out of the shop, even if I’m willing to pay extra for it?

Is it such total standard practice in the tattooing world that the artist retains the copyright on their work, and is a work-for-hire agreement (and material release) not an option? I get tattoo artists wanting to keep their copyrights (clearly it’s working well for them) but especially for famous people like LeBron…

I have been saying that all progressive single white CIS males should just go from purple/red state to state and just carpet bag the hell out of the elections. So much better than doing charity work abroad. I’d donate money to that fund. 

That’s a terrible price for 3 GB. I pay 15/month on TMobile Prepaid 3gb (Simple Connect Plan), which tops out at 35/month for 12gb. My wife pays 40 a month for Verizon prepaid 5gb, with a 5/mo discount for autopay, and another 10/mo loyalty discount (27.55 total with taxes and fees).

This would be nice in theory and back when checked luggage wasn’t an extra fee.

I loved my ipod touch; It came free with my iMac, and those two were the first apple devices I owned. I used the touch primarily as a web browsing device and gaming device, never having had a dedicated mobile gaming device nor smartphone up until that point (as far as a media player goes, I was used to non-apple…

You’re gonna pay around double for a dumb TV, and they lack a lot of other features that come standard on TVs now. That Samsung and Sceptre you linked don’t have HDR, for example. The ad revenue subsidizes the cost of the smart TV.

The hard G people pronounce the “are you a robot” COPT-K-HA

You’re right, in my assumption our friends were paying in cash for a 300k vacation house.

Yup! Plus you now feel the obligation to HAVE to vacation there, instead of having the freedom to get a hotel/airbnb wherever and whenever you feel like.

For the type of person you’re describing, a vacation home while continuing to rent a primary residence isn’t tenable either, and again, if their long-term goal IS a forever home in their actual desired location, then I still think it’s a worse idea than just parking your cash in an index fund.

I will say, if you really can’t afford the downpayment/mortgage on your forever home, but desperately want to dip your feet in the market for fear of losing out, I would probably buy a total fixer upper and just have it slowly renovated while you continue living in your current place. Move in once it’s in a livable…

I have two different couple friends that did this during the pandemic and I just couldn’t understand the value proposition, especially since I don’t think either of the couples are planning on renting it out.

How did you get the ingredients for your from-scratch roast chicken? Did your maid shop for them for you? Cause if so you can probably just ask them to roast your chicken too, then you can drink even more.

Because I wanted to see if it could give me enough tips to make it worth it for me to do it myself. And after I read the article I’m still 99% sure I couldn’t do as good of a job as a Costco chicken and it would probably cost me double in price and double in time.

Just buy a roasted chicken for 5 bucks at costco.