I have questions! I’m a nerd about copyright, and I was curious how “works for hire” came into play here, or what sort of special permissions/rights are granted for an event. On a much less celebrity-scale, a wedding photographer maintains the copyright on wedding photos, but they can’t go and sell those photos to…

The photographer does not have the right to resell her/his images without the consent of the photo’s content

If she wants to control and own images of her taken at concerts, she should only allow her on-staff photograper cover the event—like Beyoncé does. If she reposts a photo taken by someone else not in her employ, she should credit it as their work. If she allows photojournalists to cover her show—a form of news coverage—…

She’s just one of the plastics. She’s a stealth regina george. Except not all that stealthy.

I have no hate for Taylor or for any business woman who wants to get her hustle on but I hate the way the media treats her like she’s some aww shucks lil ole me underdog angel whose omg so generous and cute. She is a business woman, child of a banking dynasty and all about the money for herself and little else. She’s…

Although I like some of Taylor’s music, I’m glad people are calling her out. Someone on Twitter called her out yesterday over the fact that she allows her music videos to showcase on Youtube. If she feels like music has so much value, then why not make people buy those videos? I never bought that she was…

The physical event may be Taylor’s vision but the photographs, and all the decisions related to when, where, and how to take a given photo, show the artistic vision of the photographer. The image shows us how they choose to interpret the world and share their version of it.

By your logic, if I’m getting what you’re saying correctly, any kind of photojournalist should cede rights of their work to their subjects...

I agree with the photographer here. Yes it’s great and all that Tay’s managed to get Apple to back track and agree to pay artists (such as herself) for the free 3 month trial. I thought she came across as very eloquent and sincere in her post - however, maybe she should brush up on what’s going on in her OWN camp…

I mean, let’s be straight. This is a woman who said “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women” when someone made a light joke about her but has plenty of songs calling out and mocking other women, including her most recent one.

Love me some Taylor Swift, but her whole criticism of Apple and Spotify comes across as a bit disingenuous to me. She’s trying to position it as support for the “little people” and “indie artists” but really anyone with a brain should be able to discern that she’s doing it for her bottom line first and foremost. This…

Standard line: “All creative people should get what they are owed... and thanks for the photos, I’m using them EVERYWHERE!”

I got the point perfectly. And I take no issue with teh mesage. I ahd to do things i wasn’t happy to do when I was dealing with a shit head roommate who kept putting off paying his share of the bills and a job that hadn’t given rasises in over a year and where working overitme every week was the onyl way to get by.…

I don’t think I do. When he sits on his throne of gold and tells the rest of us to do “literally anything else” to get by, I get the point quite clearly.

Why did it have to come from THIS white dude? This is a case of loving the message but thinking the messenger is a smarmy twat. I’ve thought that since he did his little bit shaming those who were in bad enough financial straits to have to use a payday loan like I was. It sure is easy to mock desperate people when you…

All 700 of the Duggars (or however many there are) and the rest of their kooky cult prayed and prayed to God for a worthy distraction from all the news about Josh’s molestation charges/not charges and child abuse. And God saw Michelle’s empty, vapid stare and smiled.

I have been really thinking about this recently and I think I have identified what irritates me most about here. Some of us are minorities who present as white. There is this awful double edged sword you live with. I refuse to “Spic it up” to appear more Latina, and I know I walk around with a certain amount of…

Idk the tone of the article seemed a bit pearl-clutchy and there seems to be some tsk tsking going on in the comments. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Everyone’s entitled to their interpretation of what’s funny in comedy, however, Mindy fucking NAILED IT. Maybe if George wasn’t such a fuckwit interviewer and used a better choice of words and didn’t create a solid moment of awkward silence, she wouldn’t have had to break the ice with such a FUCKING AWESOME RESPONSE.

Thank you thank you thank you. I have such a conflicted, fluid racial identity. I’m half Filipino but grew up far away from any of the culture (and also am pretty ambiguous looking) so feel weird asserting that identity, but at the same time don’t like being white-washed. And I don’t always feel comfortable asserting…