Emily Ratajkowski looked cute at a pre-Grammy event. [Popoholic]
Malaysia has no time for Fifty Shades of Bangs Trauma. [Dlisted]
More photos of Sam & Aaron Taylor Johnson. [LaineyGossip]
Taylor Swift is going to war with Etsy. [Buzzfeed]
Pajiba says Jupiter Ascending is “staggeringly bad.” [Pajiba]
One Direction in Australia! [A Socialite Life]
Vivica A. Fox needs to let her girls breathe. [Go Fug Yourself]
Sofia Vergara in spandex. Aspirational! [Celebslam]
Katy Perry is getting a Kardashian-esque iPhone game. [Evil Beet]
Miranda Kerr dressed conservatively, for a change. [Moe Jackson]
Brandi Glanville, mafia enforcer? [Reality Tea]
Ashley Simpson is expecting a girl. [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
Katie Holmes dropped all of her friends when she got with Tom Cruise. [CDAN]
Retrospective: the many loves of Scarfy Depp. [Wonderwall]
Native Malaysian here. 50 Shades trilogy definitely made it into the country in its original book form although i’m not surprised that the movie got cut. Movies have been cut for lesser reasons in our country, lol, but the DVDs always make it through (bootleg or otherwise) so really, it doesn’t make any difference.
American media are so worked up on that 50 Shades censorship. Malaysia is probably laughing at us for still debating about vaccines.
You know, we do have a higher vaccination rate than the US. The Passion of the Christ was banned to the Muslim population of Malaysia but my family bought the DVD and watched it together because my grandpa is a historian and he insisted on watching it! Censorship in Malaysia is a funny thing because, as i’ve said, the DVDs get in anyway but yeah, it’s just as funny that US media is so worked up about it.
Those lips are distracting. Are they new? And that seems like an overreach on Swifty’s part to take down people selling Love’s a game candles on etsy.
I think if it were just the quotes on the candles, it would be fine. The sellers are including her (copyrighted) photos in the image and her name on the bottom of the candles. Musicians make the bulk of their money off concerts and merch, so I can see why they wouldn’t want people to associate so closely with her trademarks.
Those lips were big before, but I agree… they seem to have grown.
Her lips look painful.
I predict that a lot of kids will be racking up huge phone bills on that Katy Perry game
The folks at Pajiba really hate Jupiter Acscending and it’s producing some really funny writing. They had a funny post calling out Eddie Redmayne’s voice/accent in the film and ranking it a list of the worst accents in movie history. Ouch.
Lol
They REALLY hated it. The movie sounds terrible too. Human juice, DNA inherit, space rollerblade boots, etc… It all sounds awful.
Worst part though. I hate that twitching all CGI scenen where you can’t tell what is going on. It seems more like they just want to show off all they can fit into a scene rather than have it build to the story.
I love sci-fi so will see it since there is really no other movie that appeals to me. I had rather watch horrible sci-fi instead of yet another sequel, remake or war movie. Although spongebob seems to be a lot of fun.
Wow Swifty. That’s low. It’s Etsy. Get over it.
I can see how she would have an issue with the mugs that feature a photo of her and items like that (because really, the sellers should know that’s obviously illegal) but the candles that just have an excerpt from one of her songs? That seems so petty to me….
I saw something similar to this on TMZ. Beyonce “went to war” with Etsy over the hand painted “Feyonce” coffee mugs with the O being a diamond ring. That it’s happening to control the image and more what the lawyers are doing to protect the image. Still… Swifty is aware of this. Once these stories pick up speed social media brings it directly to the artists.
Swifty might be nice to her fans here and there when she feels like it, but it ends there. If I sold plushy fox toys named “swifty” and dressed them in retro outfits I would expect to be sued.
She applied to trademark ‘sick beat’. She is nothing if not picayune down to the last red cent.
Bonus points for cockamamie picayune usage.
I read it that way too.
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Whut? Fake baby plus cereal and the finger?
I hope you’re not saying what I think you’re saying.
I’m not talking to you.
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Let’s be friends again:
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I was just messing with you.
Do they have any emojis for “I’m not talking to you”? That could come in handy.
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Her team took down a parody a youtuber had made of one of her videos during the holidays (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjjRuYIPSxw). I guess they are trying to control her image.
But that doesn’t control her image unless no one knows about it, which with a little thing called the internet, is impossible. It just makes her look petty and controlling. They were selling those things to fans of hers. The items themselves were positive about her. Still ridiculously petty to me.
United States
Although a parody can be considered a derivative work under United States Copyright Law, it can be protected from claims by the copyright owner of the original work under the fair use doctrine, which is codified in 17 U.S.C. § 107. The Supreme Court of the United States stated that parody “is the use of some elements of a prior author’s composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author’s works”. That commentary function provides some justification for use of the older work. See Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.
I’m an Etsy seller and you’d be amazed at how often copyright infringement letters are issued. We once created an original photo/typography design using a well known Oprah quote. Our item was removed by Etsy and we were issued a cease and desist letter by Harpo Productions threatening a lawsuit if we reposted. So, Swift isn’t the only celebrity to go down this road.
I understand both sides of the coin, since the celebrities view it as individuals making money off of their work. But there is a lot of gray area when it comes to handmade art and copyright infringement. What sucks is that most of the sellers on Etsy are freelancers who have no choice but to remove the product since we have no means to fight any type of copyright notice from a “big, bad” legal company.
I deal with copyright laws on the regular. Some of these are so blatant I can’t believe they thought it was a good idea. There is a grey area with creative works but using their image, lyrics and creations without parody for commerce seems pretty brazen.
But they are making profit, however little of it, using her likeness, her lyrics, etc. that is copyright infringement no matter how small of a scale the infringement is.
Yes, some of her lyrics are cliches, non unique, etc. but if they are referencing her name, music, likeness with those phrases/lyrics, the intentions are clear. You are not buying that candle with her lyrics on it because you like the candle and/or the phrase. You are buying it because it has to go with Taylor Swift.
I don’t know why people in general are so dismissive of intellectual property.
It’s amazing how many people dismiss copyright laws, think the original artist should be “flattered”, or that it’s no big deal. I know a number of artists who have had their work stolen for advertising or other products. People are going to slam Swift for this, but her team is in the right here, and she’s hardly the only successful artist to have people who monitor this sort of thing. And it’s not just her, but the photographer who took the album photo, and the people who wrote the songs with her.
Copyright laws protect everyone- from the little guy all the way up to multi-millionaire pop stars. I wouldn’t let someone put my work on products and sell them either.
mimif. (wrong spot) She looks like Karate Chop Lady, there. I especially don’t like her at the Information desk, she’s a mini Vanna White.
OK, but turn the Etsy/swifty thing around-
Taylor or Beyonce steal an Etsy artist’s work and market it as their own.
Etsy-er: “hey, that’s mine! I created it, and you’re making money off it!”
Celeb: “yeah, but you weren’t making much from it anyway, hardly anything, and you don’t have the exposure I do.”
Etsy-er: “it doesn’t matter how much I’m making. It’s my creative property.”
Feel any differently? It doesn’t matter how much is made, brazen use of someone else’s trademark, and profiting from it, no matter how much or little, is wrong. The same trademark laws protect their work. They should respect it.
Shouldn’t this read “Looked like a budget Kardashian at a pre-Grammy event”?
Lol that’s what I thought too but she actually looks better than any Kardashian
Haha I came here to say this! She looks like a lost Kardtrashian sister.
Or…this is what Kim thinks she looks like.
Haha. She’s obviously an attractive woman but I don’t know if she’d look so cute in this outfit if she didn’t have her height and body. The face helps, too.
She’s stunning.
She always looks dead in the eyes. And her taste in clothing is terrible.