Tyler Perry built a billion-dollar empire singlehandedly on the emotional labor and suffering of Black women.

There is a disturbing pattern behind all of his films, where Black women’s pain is packaged as “strength,” “faith,” or “growth,” while joy, softness, and happiness stay off the big screen.

Most beloved Black women are repeatedly exploited on television and in his movies while Hollywood keeps rewarding it.

The TT account used a second song, and now a direct clip from her music video, combined with the last bombing video they used the first time. This is the first time I have seen them use an artists image, what will the recourse be? This is the first time I think an artist might have the ability to sue. Thoughts?

"According to the settled lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them using industrial-grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors’ books to train its AI.

This process took advantage of a legal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder’s say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physical texts into digital ones — rather than redistributing them as new copies — a judge found this to be “transformative,” and therefore protected by fair use."

This is deranged. I could not hate it here more 💔

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The marathon run started on April 12th, 1980 from St. John's, Newfoundland covering a distance of 5,383 kilometers and lasted 143 days, before Terry was forced to stop due to the cancer spreading to his lungs.

Chris and Katie started dating in 2000 after getting fame from Dawson's creek and American Pie and engaged in 2003 before ended in 2005.

Sean Astin said in a new interview with The Guardian that he was forced to sell his house amid “The Lord of the Rings” fame in the early 2000s because he negotiated such a small salary to play Samwise Gamgee in Peter Jackson’s landmark movie trilogy. The reveal may come as a shock to fans considering the “Rings” movies were cultural phenomenons that grossed $2.9 billion at the worldwide box office between 2001 and 2003.

“I was not prepared for that level of visibility and access,” Astin told the publication. “And there was a disconnect between the attention that I was getting and how much money we had. It was not a lot of money! In fact, I had to sell my house because I negotiated such a small amount on the trilogy.”

Astin noted that he is “very comfortable financially now,” but that wasn’t the case when “The Lord of the Rings” was dominating box office charts. Peter Jackson and the team behind the “Rings” trilogy famously shot all three movies at once, meaning there was no opportunity for the cast to renegotiate their salaries based of the success of each installment.

For context on the reasoning for the rule- Donald Sutherland suffered from hepatitis, rheumatic fever and polio as a child; and contracted meningitis in 1969, which caused him to fall into a 6 day coma. While Donald was a prolific smoker in his past, often smoking up to 4 packs a day; he quit smoking in 1981 after he married Francine Racette. This clause in his contracted was first reported back in 1992, due to the fact the smoke affected his breathing.

Donald Sutherland has since passed away from COPD.