So, as he did with other big television events that he hoped would draw customers into his restaurant, Sheridan put a note about it on his restaurant’s web site. For this occasion, he Googled a little bit, found what appeared to be official portraits for the governor and the senator, and downloaded them. Then, Sheridan inserted them onto his web site, along with details about the October 2 debate. [...]
On September 13, 2010, Sheridan received a letter from an attorney representing a company claiming that Sheridan’s web site stole their photograph of Palin, and they wanted him to pay for it.
“A copyright holder is entitled to seek statuary damages up to $30,000 per infringement as well as statutory damages of not less than $2,500 or more than $25,000 per falsification of copyright management information, in addition to attorney’s fees and costs,” the letter said.
There is nothing “official” in Sarah Palin’s Alaska. There are only people pretending to be professional until they can find a sleazy way to cash it all in. Anyway, the next time a gross old Teabagger “derivatives” this photograph of Palin by jerking off to it, he will be required to give this photographer 30% of the semen off the top. [WNYC]
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That's nearly the sum Bristol was offered to lecture Washington University students about maybe, you know, not giving up the pussy so freely.
The cum sum?
Is that what they mean by Summa Cum Laude?
By the looks of it, no Palin woman has ever given away her pussy for free…
If you're "lucky" enough to hit that, they will make you pay and pay and pay…
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The rest of the story is that Sheridan paid. They tried to get him to sign a gag order so that he wouldn't tell anyone about it. Um, don't they usually make the person being paid sign the gag order so that they can get their hands on the check? Where is his incentive not to blab about what happened?
A gag order? Well, this certainly makes me gag.
Grifters grifting grifters grifting grifters. I remember this from The Lion King.
It's the great circle-jerk of life.
Hakunta Matata.
Hanna Montana?
Hollywood has caused her to be corrupted by Satan and the atheists who worship him, according to her insane one-hit-wonder father:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/billy-ray-cyrus-sa...
Billy Ray needs to hook-up with Randy & Evi Quaid.
Hannah Montana's kunt?
the circle life of jerks!
Watch it.
Some company may own her face, but Jesus owns her snatch.
Jesus just called and said to tell you he don't want that skanky thang.
And her ass belongs to Murdoch.
Does he keep it in a jar by the door?
Who is it for?
The Mama Grizzly
Writing the words of a stump speech in pen on her palm;
Warns of Islam.
Look at her babble,
Cradling Trig on the stage while the teabaggers cheer.
She's stoking fear.
All the loony wingnuts, where do they all come from?
All the loony wingnuts, where do they all belong?
Barbara Bush's miscarried fetus?
All the Wokette Sirens.
Where do they all come from?
That photographer's been taking lessons from Palin on shakedowns and abuse of the legal system for petty vengeance, I see.
"Man Says He Legally Owns Sarah Palin’s Face"
He can keep it.
Must be that crook Van Flein.
Yeah someone owns her face — the stuff behind it, though, is still as independent as a hog on ice.
I heard she has a wooden leg
Fortunately for Sheridan, he won't be googling any more. The googly-eyed crazy man on the Fox told him it would turn him in to a leftist muslin.
The Republican A-Team: Walnuts! as Hannibal, Herm Cain as B.A., Steve King as Murdoch, & Sarah Palin as Face.
30 percent's not that bad, considering I'm in a low-jack bracket.
Spreadin' Sarah's wealth is the best form of Socialism there is.
I would like to trademark the facepalm made when Sarah Palin mangles English/history/science/statistics/facts.
Sarah Palin scares the shit out of me. I wouldn't eat at a restaurante that had her photo. The food would be wild game and I would get some terrible worm thing and I would be terrified of her mug.
I'll bet he could use picture of her mannequin head for free. Or a picture of a Sarah Palin™ impersonator Tina Fey. Or a picture of a grandmama grizzly.
Or maybe just a balloon full of hot air with a lipstick and magic marker face.
A pic of Lisa Ann from "Nailin' Palin" would have attracted a better clientele.
Say what you will about pornography & its enthusiasts, they are committed to their hobby. Some hobbyists have model-trains, others have comic-books, porn-fiends… Porn-fiends have cartoonishly sculpted people running trains.
At least we can now see 100s of pictures of Sarah Bear. Here's one of her wrapped in the American flag: http://www.alaskastock.com/preview.asp?image=351P...
Unfortunately, she is not carrying the Cross.
She had to get down off it because someone else needed the wood.
not wearing a wedding band, either. NEW CONSPIRACY: All her children are de-legitimized.
If someone else owns her face, does this mean we won't have to ever look at it again unless we pay? 'Cuz that's okay with me.
I believe the rule is: you jizz all over it, and it's yours.
You spunk it, you buy it!
I think it is overly optimistic to imagine your average Palin fan being able to manage an erection, much less a messy happy ending.
It's never a "happy" ending if Palin's face is involved.
The surprising thing is that a restaurant could draw a crowd in NYC ( or almost anywhere else) with a photo of Palin advertising a rerun of the vice-presidential debate. I realize it is downtown so its all post-ironic–although I thought the hipsters moved to Brooklyn years ago–but eating and watching Sarah sounds like self-inflicted torture.
I've owned Sarah Palin's face several times.
Owned it several times….
I'm a very lonely man.
A short illustration of how fucked up US copyright law is.
I am not pro-piracy. I believe IP is a valid concept. In this case, I even believe that Sheridan owed AlaskaStockWhatever a licensing fee, since he used the image for a commercial purpose.
But the point of the large (by regular-person standards) statutory penalties is to provide plaintiffs' lawyers with a great big bludgeon with which to coerce small-time and/or inadvertent infringers to cough up some protection money.
I get the feeling that there are a line of men that could claim ownership of Palin's face over her lifetime…
Darts are fair use.
Piper Palin has most of the darts. She pulls pages out of the dictionary and tosses darts to get the words for the pig with lipstick's word salad speeches.
There's a copyright attorney on the corner. Can I copyright a face I would want to sit on?
The Star Whackers!
I'm surprised that's not already trademarked as a name for a celebrity nudes site.
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