Bootlegacy: Liz Nevis on intellectual and cultural property http://bootlegacylaw.com Being an Attorney's Explorations into the Laws of Intellectual and Cultural Property Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en Your 15MB of Fame: Schlemiels, Schlimazels, and Schadenfreude http://bootlegacylaw.com/2007/06/06/your-15mb-of-fame-schlemiels-schlimazels-and-schadenfreude/ http://bootlegacylaw.com/2007/06/06/your-15mb-of-fame-schlemiels-schlimazels-and-schadenfreude/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:40:56 +0000 Elizabeth Nevis http://bootlegacylaw.com/2007/06/06/your-15mb-of-fame-schlemiels-schlimazels-and-schadenfreude/ R Stevens’ “LOL Rights Reserved” T-shirtThis T-shirt means “If you take an amusingly embarrassing picture or video of me, don’t put it on the Web without my permission.” With or without Photoshop embellishments. With or without grammatically incorrect captions. The shirt is a creation of R Stevens, the brain and funnybone behind the underground fave Diesel Sweeties web comic, among so many other things that one wonders if he’s really just one person.

What this shirt is suggesting, to the legal eagle eye, is celebrity rights for the rest of us. The shirt has no legislative or judicial backing - yet. But, just maybe, this idea’s time has come:
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