Tag: performers
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performers should damn well make money when their work is streamed
When Famous Celebrity Performers, be they BeyoncĂ© or Scarlett Johansson or someone else, sue for infringement, or demand full payment of their royalties, there’s always a bunch of unpleasant hot takes, an assortment of people insisting that those silly rich people don’t need money and should shut up and sit in a corner. I disagree, […]
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Performers in Our Quarantined World
It’s May Day in a year of pandemic, and there are (socially distant) protests and strikes to mark the day. We have begun, in the litter of eugenicist and genocidal commentaries accompanying this pandemic, to see discussions of workers’ rights and worker safety as well. I’m going to talk, today, about a very different set […]