see kids…communism doesn’t pay…

Even politicians have a right to protect themselves against unauthorized & uncompensated usage of their personages. First Amendment & free speech liberties, i.e., ‘Right of Publicity’ considerations doesn’t extend to profiting.

Not too long ago Schwarzenegger sued a bobble-head maker for just that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/national/18arnold.html

..and although it would naturally seem that charicaturist Tom Richmond and his partner would be ultimately responsible for the content and thus any poss. litigation, Apple of course knows that it would be a richer target.

An interesting point about that is (in Australia) they censor the word Nazi (to N**i) in the iTunes store and refused to put my review up that criticized the decision.

By the way I do not think they should censor Mein Kampf (everyone should be able to see how tedious and banal it is) or this App.

I dislike Microsoft so I use Apple, maybe I should try open source.

http://images.google.com/images?q=dennis%20kucinich&sourceid=opera&num=0&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

The mag’s really gone downhill since Gaines died.

The problem is that the government doesn’t want to hear from us. They want to pass healthcare and stuff when we don’t want them too. They call us teabaggers, rednecks, too stupid to know their own interest.

Well guess what. We know who you they are and what their phone numbers are. If our phone calls and rallies don’t make a difference we will respond the one way they can’t ignore. We will vote on Tuesday, November 2, 2009 and replace them with people who will listen to us, who won’t call us stupid rednecks, and who will clean up Washington.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/app-store-hypocrisy-update-mein-kampf-complete-with-nazi-logo-approved/