(crossed wires, my comment is part of a convo with Adrasrta about Idelle Weber and the Mad Men opening credits) 

It isn’t commercial work so no, she didn’t need to licence the photo for this.

She did credit the photographer for one thing (the image Devins “found” was a re-colour she did later, the first upload had a credit) but also no, she’s not selling it and not being paid to create it so it’s a different case to what he did.

I think legally using her work as the basis should have been alright (also not an expert here) but it was definitely a giant dick move for them to act as if she wasn’t an influence on it at all, and then to not invite her to contribute after they had been called out on it.

Since the thread got nuked (understandably) I’ll drop my other example back in here...

Ok, I’ll bite this one, I guess his masters degree would be in urban planning, so probably won’t have covered things like image rights but as someone who’s masters degree is actually in a relevant fucking topic to the matter at hand (illustration), mine does.

Idelle Weber’s work was borrowed for the opening credits of Mad Men, not that you’d know that from reading anything by the people who made it. For good measure when AMC commissioned a series of posters for the final season by notable designers and artists from the era...she was not asked to contribute. :|

Oh man Logan’s Burgers, the ice-cream parlour at that place is amazing. 

Not gonna lie, if it wasn’t a McDonald’s uniform I’d probably buy the ladies outfit in that second photo.

This was so close to being a health food re-brand of Capri-sun but they fucked it.

I’ll admit I’ve not read the novel, but everything I’m hearing about this now makes it sound like a YA retelling of An Inspector Calls.

I’ll definitely track down a physical copy, I had a check to see if the university library had it but they don’t, so I think I’ll find and donate it (they have Ghostwatch already, so I’m kinda surprised this is missing).

Pipes is such a great low-tech ghost effect, 0 fancy shit, just a freaky as hell looking guy in the corners or panning shot that the camera never lingers or focuses on.

The only problem there was the system got overwhelmed really easily so a lot of people just got an engaged tone!

I need to see if I can find a DVD of that one, by the looks of it it was very lucky to survive.

Like all the best “found footage” films it understands that it is a story structure, and not just a visual aesthetic. It looks like real live documentary TV because they just approached it as if they were making that, all the presenters are actually presenters rather than actors, which goes a long way to stopping it…

This was on TV when i was 8... “Pipes” is still a running reference in my household and in spite of being a 3rd gen life-long atheist I am legitimately scared of ghosts.

I have found “can this person talk about Robert Yang without resorting to homophobic jokes” to be a good sniff test to measure if it’s worth giving a games critic/LPer/etc the time of day or not, needless to say Jacksepticeye did not pass.

FINALLY the contemporary disco/high fantasy mash up I have been waiting for!