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If you found out that your specific facial features as a kid were used in some of the highest grossing films of all time, without your permission, you really wouldn’t be upset and expect some compensation?
Doesn’t matter if you personally don’t think they look alike.
How important is it to you that it was one of the highest grossing films of all time ?
How would you feel about it if the movie was a failure?
Seems pretty freaking important, given how residuals work?
Yes that changes the amount of money she would get, but I meant how important is it in regards to her rights being abused?
Seems pretty important to me.
How so ?
More money made means more people saw it?
Ah yeah that makes sense. Thanks
The economic angle is already obvious, but even if we leave that aside: the more people see a film, the more people will see her likeness used without her consent.
there's also the issue of her being an indigenous girl/woman and a rich white man taking something valuable from her and using it for his own gains
plus his personal admission that she's the face of neytiri is kind of extremely creepy in a "somebody took off their court-mandated gps tracker" way
Oh hi James. You're doing the antisrmite thing
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
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You're doing the antisemite thing.
Had nothing to do with Jews. Had everything to do with sartre, but apparently you haven't read anything without pictures.