very_well_lost@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your country's "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"?English
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4 months ago“You can’t put lipstick on a pig” was popular for about a year in the US, circa 2007
“You can’t put lipstick on a pig” was popular for about a year in the US, circa 2007
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Looks like the article is paywalled… anyone got a mirror?
More like “don’t fuck around but find out anyway”.
I feel like this could create some pretty toxic incentives.
Like, imagine if the moment a person dies all of their works immediately go into the public domain… What’s to stop a company like Disney from just straight-up assassinating people who create promising IPs? They paid 4 billion dollars for Star Wars — but why not just have George Lucas murdered for a fraction of the price?