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This will have 0 effect on baseball, unless you count slightly changing the way baseball video games are produced. It's still a crazy of copyright maximalism a
by CamTin 8y ago
This will have 0 effect on baseball, unless you count slightly changing the way baseball video games are produced.
It's still a crazy of copyright maximalism at work. It's hard to get worked up about with so many more pressing issues up for grabs today, but even copyright maximalism is a symptom of a larger problem of the neoliberal world order having an unstoppable drive to monetize and marketize everything. This is new, unsettled law because tattoos were always a fringe weirdo outsider thing that would never ever land in a court. Now that tattoos have become mainstream and rich people (LeBron James in this case) have them, we have to fit it into this crazy framework we've invented to let multinational corporations make money on mouse cartoons. If we don't, there may be dire consequences like setting a precedent that not every cultural practice can be owned and charged for, and that property rights are possibly not the most fundamental rights in a free society.