stackyFACTSIf a corporation buys the rights to your voice and won't sell them back, the pettiest economic move is to just clone yourself.
If a corporation buys the rights to your voice and won't sell them back, the pettiest economic move is to just clone yourself. Artists lock down 'master rights' to the specific recording of a song, but they still own the underlying composition. By painstakingly re-recording an exact replica of their old albums, artists can instantly devalue the original masters held by greedy executives, redirecting all future licensing money into their own pockets.
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