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Old Lady Ruins Fresco, Claims Copyright, Demands Money
Via TechDirt:
Remember that sweet octagenarian lady in Spain who tried to restore a 19th-century fresco “Ecce Homo” and ended up producing something that the BBC’s Europe correspondent described as “a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic”? …
According to a story pointed out to us by @sinkdeep, that sweet octagenarian lady is back, accompanied now by her lawyers, claiming copyright on her work and demanding a cut of the takings from the collection box that the church authorities have placed near the fresco …
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My department chair came in this morning to make sure I knew this happened. He’s my new bestie.
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God, this is so hilarious to me.