So, let me get this straight. Blizzard's plan for regaining audience goodwill with the 1.0 release of Overwatch 2 is to open with a heavily promoted PvE mission pack (i.e., thereby reminding everyone of the vapourware PvE campaign they built Overwatch 2's entire marketing strategy around, then quietly axed once they had everybody's money), and the premise of this PvE mission pack is basically doubling down on the broadly disliked "our heroes put down a slave rebellion" PvE storyline from the first game? Have I got all that right?
The federal privacy watchdog says Canada Post is breaking the law by gleaning information from the outsides of envelopes and packages to help build marketing lists that it rents to businesses.
The office of privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne says information collected for the marketing program includes data about where individuals live and what type of online shopping they do, based on who sends them packages.
The commissioner found Canada Post had not obtained authorization from individuals to indirectly collect such personal information.
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The Fine Line Between Fan Art, Fan Fiction, and Finding Yourself Sued
This whole article is worth a read for fan creators, especially those of you trying to make an honest buck off your work.
(excerpt below)
How Do You Avoid a Lawsuit?
Due to the popularity of fan fiction and fan art, many content owners have begun proactively providing guidelines to their fanbase. Wizards of the Coast (Dungeons & Dragons),[6] CBS and Paramount Pictures (Star Trek),[7] and EPIC Games[8] have all developed policies to inform fans of what they can and cannot do legally.
Additionally, usually as long as the fan content is non-commercial, it is not a problem with copyright holders. Regardless, unless the work is completely original, fans should be careful about their creations.
Additionally, try to be smarter than this guy who attempted to sue Amazon for the rights to Lord of the Rings.
You cannot replicate or recreate Barbenheimer. Barbenheimer was organic, spontaneous because people saw that these two movies--bright, colorful, comedic Barbie and dark, moody Oppenheimer--were being released on the same day and ran with it. Barbenheimer was lightning in a bottle.
Execs will try to replicate it because money. But it won't work. Consumers will see right through the astroturfed marketing, and whatever the execs try will fail. We must let Barbenheimer be a one-and-done for the sake of the movie industry.
There was a website that you could upload photos to, or enter the URL of your/someone's social media page, and the site would scan the internet for those pictures being used in advertising without consent.
I entered my Facebook URL and it flagged 5 pictures that I was tagged in, one of which was me resting against a table, and that picture had been cropped to only show the arm that was resting on the table so 6 advertising teams could sell bracelets and arm warmers. Another was of my face so a company could sell reading glasses.
Or so dictates the paradoxical logic that we have decided for ourselves, and when the question is this awkward, the answer is obvious: to stick our collective heads in the sand and simply enjoy the pretty things. And goodness, they are pretty. The problems with advertising, and its seductive evils, are laid bare by this selection of ads handpicked from the dashboard. The common thread between all of these ads is that they have been produced by corporations whose end goal and very purpose is to convince you (against your better judgment, or circumstances) to spend your money (money which you need) on their products (products which you don't—and possibly can't really afford.)
Similarly demonstrated, however, is the irresistible nostalgic glamour. Perhaps when contemporary advertising tries so hard to be a meme, or be funny, or be quirky and off-beat (or perhaps more simply put, tries too hard) there is a genuine allure in classic adverts that, even now, feel so effortlessly stylish. This effortlessness is also paradoxical because, like the products they often advertise, they are the result of hard work, time, dedication, from those at the peak of their craft. Like these products, they were made for leisurely, long-term use and enjoyment, and not to be so quickly consumed and discarded. What we're really saying, I suppose, is when #advertising is this slick, and pleasing to the eye, we must simply ask that you be quiet, promptly, and accept our money.
And remember, folks, one eye on the pretty ads, the other guarding your piggy banks x
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