Kat Von D claims her tattoo based on a famous photo of the jazz legend Miles Davis qualifies as "fair use"

weird case with potentially terrible ramifications for tattoo artists

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    10 months ago

    Tf? It’s a tattoo…louie-wtf unless someone is generating a profit off something this kind of shit is absolute nonsense

    • novibe@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      I mean, technically there was profit? Like you have to pay to get a tattoo, and they can get expensive. But still, this feels like it goes against even the spirit of the shitty copyright laws, so yeah…

      • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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        10 months ago

        True, for some reason at the time I assumed they sued the person getting the tat not Kat. But yeah I agree, people have been getting random tattoos of things forever, Miles davis has been dead for ages, everything about this feels like a cash grab. just goofy Af all around