Re: Interesting billboard
Companies pay to have their products and logos included in movies and TV (unless, by chance, every props person loves Mac computers), though they do have choice about what movies they place their products in. The disreputable "Trailer Park Boys" had to blur corporate logos -- usually on junk food containers. Still, I'd think most corporations wouldn't mind free publicity. The concept of ownership has become a bit silly in recent years. A friend of mine, who quilts, tells me that one woman designs and sells quilt patterns, then harasses people to pay her if they display a quilt made from a purchased pattern online. If I sold a mandolin design (a silly thought), I wouldn't expect you to pay me if you posted a photo of the finished mandolin on the Cafe.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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