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>> Hey Ellen, It’s Brad…ley Cooper. How’s it going? Great job at the Oscars, by the
way. So, hey, I was doing some Googling of my name, you know- as we celebrities do, and
I saw that selfie tweet did really well. Like, most retweeted tweet of all time. 3.1 million
last I checked. Guess you showed beat Obama’s tweet that had 777,000 retweets. But, uh,
you didn’t mention my twitter handle in the tweet, which I thought was kinda a weird
move.
I didn’t want to have to bring this up, but as the person who took the selfie, I,
Bradley Cooper, actually own the rights to the photo unless I sign it away. It turns
out selfie’s legally belong to the person who took the photo rather than the person
who’s phone it was on. Crazy right? Anyways- Any use of the picture without my permission
is a violation of the copyright. Sorry if that sounded stiff, I’m just reading off
of this sheet my lawyer gave me.
This means that even if you signed the picture away to the Academy, that’d be null and
void because you didn’t have the right to do so in the first place. Any use of the picture
on TV shows, including yours, has to be done with my permission, so like if you could throw
me a shout out on Twitter, that’d be really cool. You know? It’s just @BradleyCooper
spelled @ sign TheRossEverett. Just like it sounds.
Thanks El. Again, I, Bradley Cooper own the selfie. Not you. great job at the Oscars.
By the way, did you know I was in Wet Hot American Summer? A lot of people forget that.
Great movie. See ya.
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