Should Warner Bros agree on giving money to someone who had no legal right over an art work?
Warner Bros. has been having a lot of legal problems these last few years, leading to million-dollar lawsuit settlements. An example is a fight between Warner Bros and Mike Tyson’s tattoo Artist: S. Victor Whitmill. Now, the discussion at hand is whether the tattoo artist Whitmill should get compensated by the company for using his artwork which they copied and used in a film without Whitmill’s concent? And I agree that he should get money for his artwork.
TOP: The tattoo on actor Ed Helms’s face is identical to that of Mike Tysons’s face tatoo.
However, some people may disagree and say, “well it’s not like he had copyrights” it’s still his creation. Well, when the company Forever 21’s recent advertisements for their new line of clothes and accessories came out, Ariana Grande decided that because of the likeness to her and her recent “7 Rings” music video she would hit them with a 10 million dollar lawsuit.
The irony of that whole fiasco is that Ariana Grande herself was accused of stealing person likeness by none other than Farrah Moan who called the singer a, “hypocrite” because the outfit Ariana is wearing in the “7 Rings” music video is very similar to Farrah Moan’s as seen below.
LEFT: Farrah Moan accusing Ariana Grande of stealing her look. TOP: Ariana Grande accusing Forever 21 of stealing her likness to promote new clothing line.
Overall, I don’t agree on Whithmill getting 900M like a more recent case with the ‘Conjuring’ franchise and the rights to the story. However, the movie “Hangover 2” did make a lot of money because of everything the movie included and that includes his artwork that was portrayed in the film so, I do believe he should get if a substantial amount of money to settle the argument.
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