Farting unicorn causes kerfuffle between Elon Musk and artist(marketwatch.com)
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Farting unicorn causes kerfuffle between Elon Musk and artist
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/farting-unicorn-causes-kerfuffle-between-elon-musk-and-artist-2018-06-27
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Musk responded: “We gained no financial benefit. Have asked my team to use a diff example going forward. He can sue for money if he wants, but that’s kinda lame. If anything, this attention increased his mug sales.”
'Cause lack of financial benefit is an "out" for copyright infringement?
'Cause lack of financial benefit is an "out" for copyright infringement?
Yeah he's really pulling the "don't ask permission, ask for forgiveness" card here, isn't he.
So, if you are rich enough, you can steal someone else's work and then they have to apologize for seeking some kind of fair treatment and assert that it's not about the money? Give me a break.
Elon's reply to the effect that "we made no money on it" is not cool at all. It is some variation of "ugly American" (and only because I can't think of a similar but different phrase evoking privileged and ill mannered) but about rich people, I guess.