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Imagine having your likeness frozen in time becoming this famous. Look at his photo in 2015. It is obviously him but he grew out his hair, looks thinner, and he
by swang 11y ago
Imagine having your likeness frozen in time becoming this famous. Look at his photo in 2015. It is obviously him but he grew out his hair, looks thinner, and he's aged (6 years!), then you see his own self on his shirt.
I mean its a bit different than being famous and having a famous photo taken of you. Most of the time the photo is famous because the person _and_ event are famous. But with this, it almost becomes a completely different person/thing when the "famous" aspect is just some random photo taken of you.
The question I have is does he own any rights at all to his likeness (from 2009) being reproduced? Twitch took that picture, and they own the rights to that photo taken, so I guess that part of it belongs to twitch. But now people are making statues of him and taking large photos of his head to eSports tournaments, so what rights does he have to say, "Whoa, those busts are cool, but I'm really uncomfortable with that. Take it down please"?
- emmett 11y agoTechnically he uploaded the picture himself when he was working at Twitch (then Justin.tv) -- it used to be an employe e benefit that you could add your face to the emoticon list. As to how Josh feels about it, I leave you with this link to my TwitchCon keynote presentation: http://www.twitch.tv/twitch/v/17714623?t=37m0s http://www.twitch.tv/twitch/v/17714623?t=37m0s