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‘Vile man’: Mother of viral meme star orders Rep. Steve King to stop using her son’s image in campaign ad
MSN ^ | 01 28 2020 | Allyson Chiu

Posted on 01/28/2020 2:06:46 PM PST by yesthatjallen

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Success Kid Meme
1 posted on 01/28/2020 2:06:46 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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Sorry - your kid’s image is in the public domain.

Of course it’s fascinating how “really liberal” = anti-free speech


2 posted on 01/28/2020 2:08:54 PM PST by Skywise
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To: yesthatjallen

Ahhhh. So you put your kid’s image on the interwebs and your upset somebody used it. Get a grip.


3 posted on 01/28/2020 2:09:30 PM PST by mad_as_he$$
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Griner, who identifies as “really liberal,”

Quick, kid .. run away .. do it now .. RUN !

4 posted on 01/28/2020 2:09:47 PM PST by tomkat
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To: yesthatjallen

The same BS music artists pull when a conservative plays one of their songs.


5 posted on 01/28/2020 2:09:48 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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“I was filled with rage. It made me so angry,” the 44-year-old mother from Jacksonville, Fla., told The Washington Post on Monday. “It was just kind of shocking.”

Liberals are such nasty, combative people.


6 posted on 01/28/2020 2:11:35 PM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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Griner, who identifies as “really liberal,” ...

So we all know her kid’s future already.

Poor kid.


7 posted on 01/28/2020 2:27:06 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point do you at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: yesthatjallen

The rest of the country can complain about Steve King all they want we will keep electing him. We know the truth about how they take things he says out of context.


8 posted on 01/28/2020 2:27:17 PM PST by W0bee
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To: mad_as_he$$

Exactly. All over 4chan and elsewhere.


9 posted on 01/28/2020 2:28:55 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist communists) "Love you to death".)
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Steve King holding a baby: The mother of “Success Kid” sent a cease-and-desist letter Monday to Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and his campaign, demanding that they stop using the famous image of her son in a fundraising ad.

  The resemblance is phenomenal.

10 posted on 01/28/2020 2:30:35 PM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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The kid’s calves are like cantaloupes.


11 posted on 01/28/2020 2:30:58 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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I would like to sympathize with this mama if she’d complained sooner— I wouldn’t want photos of my children all over the internet without my permission, where who knows what manner of demons could see.
But how’d the photo get on the internet in the first place? Didn’t she put it on Facebook?
At this point, she’s complicit, like a lot of those #MeToo bandwagon-jumpers.


12 posted on 01/28/2020 2:32:55 PM PST by mumblypeg
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> Sorry - your kid’s image is in the public domain.

Nope, not even close. It’s copyrighted, and she licenses it. Read the Wikipedia page linked in comment #1.

Steve King didn’t license it. His bad.

13 posted on 01/28/2020 2:34:56 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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Read comment #13. It’s copyrighted. King didn’t license it. He loses.


14 posted on 01/28/2020 2:36:07 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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Well


15 posted on 01/28/2020 2:37:03 PM PST by HalfIrish
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500 copies of that should be tweeted right back at the mom!


16 posted on 01/28/2020 2:40:24 PM PST by mdmathis6
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To: dayglored

No - she doesn’t.

She might’ve copyrighted it but there’s so much of it in the public domain that shows she either hasn’t enforced it or licensed it to a meme generating service where someone on Kings campaign made it from.

Perfectly.

Legal.


17 posted on 01/28/2020 2:45:50 PM PST by Skywise
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To: yesthatjallen

Hey, she licenced it, and sells it, and she has a right to ask someone not to use it.


18 posted on 01/28/2020 3:20:39 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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Not the way I understand it from experience. The licensee only receives money for the first time it’s put up. After that, she’s out of luck.
If it is different now, I’d love to know cuz I’d make some money on photos I am the licensee of.


19 posted on 01/28/2020 4:59:12 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: dayglored

Oh! So IOW, mama copyrighted baby’s image, and she’s been making $$ off it?? Sheesh. That’s just creepy.


20 posted on 01/28/2020 5:51:30 PM PST by mumblypeg
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