Neil Freiman
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I feel like we've said the real problem for the past two months.
It's got to get the Strait of Hormuz open.
Yeah, this became pretty big on social media.
It was called the Dua Lipa TV box.
One person commented that they would get that TV just because Dua is on it.
You mentioned these three words that I thought were a little confusing.
Right of publicity.
Now, this is the statue under which Dua Lipa is suing Samsung.
What is that?
Well, it protects an individual's name, likeness, voice, or persona from unauthorized commercial use.
And it wasn't a thing, actually, until 1953.
There was this landmark case that established the right of publicity for celebrities.
And this case involvedβyou'll never get itβ
Two competing chewing gum companies that both wanted to use baseball players' photographs on trading cards.
So that statue, that fundamental part of the justice system was established in 1953, and now it's being invoked by Dua Lipa here in 2026.
Finally, Justice was served in the Eternal Hunger Games for beach lounge chairs.
A German tourist was awarded about $1,100 by a judge because his family couldn't find sun loungers while on vacation in Greece.
This goes back to 2024 when an unnamed German tourist and his family booked an 11-night $8,500 stay at a top resort on the Greek island of Kos.
At this resort, there were signs banning guests from reserving lounge chairs with towels for more than 30 minutes without actually using them.
But the tourist said that on every day of his vacation, say for one, every single one of the sunbeds had towels on them at 6 a.m.