• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Knowing people who are not famous but are SAG-AFTRA actors, I’m going to have to disagree very much on that.

    How do likeness rights benefit non-famous people?

    Turning likeness into an intellectual property implies the right to sell it. Apparently you want to argue for likeness, so I don’t see why you would use such clauses as an argument.

    That’s a poor and fallacious argument there.

    It’s not an argument, as you have recognized. I hoped it would make you think.

    You know that not everyone in Hollywood is part of SAG-AFTRA, right? Have you ever wondered what happened to them during the strike? I guess they just have to fend for themselves. If the “union” doesn’t care about those guys, do you think the leadership cares about the small members?

    Actors are a conservative lot. At the bottom, you have the “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” and at the top… Well, you know. It’s not common on lemmy to cheer for such a system.