2y ago

Calgary liquor store offering support 6-pack for Swifties forced to watch Super Bowl

calgary.ctvnews.ca

The Super Bowl broadcast is notorious for drawing a large contingent of non-football fans who watch for the commercials and the half-time show. Now, an Alberta liquor store is offering a trio of Super Bowl-themed six packs ahead of Sunday’s big game, including one targeted at the newest group of NFL fans.

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Isn't this illegal? You can't just slap a celebrities image on your product without licensing or permission.
- It's a collection of already existing products not a product on it's own, and the image is an AI rendering. It's just a goofy promotion at a single liquor store, like when movie stores do like mystery movie nights and put movies in a brown sack and write something like "for Nicholas Cage lovers" on it. If it is illegal it sure doesn't seem worth enforcing.
  
  You haven't met Disney's lawyers, I see.
  I'm not sure what Disney has to do with T-Swift, but I assume she has some of the same lawyers.
  
  Would you mind ai images of you used for commercial use without getting paid? These ads might be implying things about you that are false but make your loved ones worry.
  Is that fine or an infringement on the right to your own image?
  
  It doesn't matter if the image is AI, airbrushed, an oil painting, a photoshop manipulation or a stolen photograph. That's completely irrelevant. Would you like your face plastered on some shit product you don't endorse? Trump's Depends Incontinent Underpants for Old Folks, featuring Dangdoggo, the guy who thinks image rights are silly.
What did they put in the 6 pack? Inquiring minds want to know. Whose in Calgary go get one and report back
The question "Will Taylor Swift make it to the Superbowl" was the only newsitem about that event that made it into the news before Sunday. Usually, we get the results of "unknown team one" and "unknown team two" and maybe some juicy halftime bits in the sports section of breakfast TV Monday morning. Still to much attention for this wannabe-sport.
- Wannabe?
  
  Whenever I see it, it's just "adults" in a kindergarten brawl about a ball that is not even round, with lots of advertising. It is hard to imagine a bigger waste of time, except waiting for a bus in the rain when the bus drivers are on strike. And that's a close one.

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