Now and forever. Amen.
We’ve had, “very few cases of people trying to exploit rights on other planets,” says Lynne Hale, a Lucasfilm spokeswoman on contracts the language of which is “standard in Hollywood”. She’s thus quoted in a Wall Street Journal story which kicks off »»» Decked out in sequined black and gold dresses, Anne Harrison and the other women in her Bulgarian folk-singing group were lined up to try out for NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” TV show when they noticed peculiar wording in the release papers they were asked to sign. Any of their actions that day last February, the contract said, could be “edited, in all media, throughout the universe, in perpetuity.” She and the other singers, many of whom are librarians in the Washington, D.C., area, briefly contemplated whether they should give away the rights to hurtling their images and voices across the galaxies forever.
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Now and forever. Amen.
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