[ljm]

It’s almost as if US legal systems actively facilitate cultural appropriation, particularly with DMCA generally being applied by brute force. Using US copyright law to protect an influencer’s appropriation of a 3000 year old name to market their narcissism is exactly a case of that.

Not as if it’s a unique name either. Artëm is common for men in Russia and Ukraine.

[akira2501]

It facilitates the violation of human rights. It created a system that does more to harm speech than it does to protect it's proliferation. The large corporations who profit the most from this "law" are the least in need of it's protections and it's bizarre that they're entitled to raise the specter of FBI investigated criminal penalties for what should be a civil matter.

The cultural appropriation, to the extent that it does occur, is simply profitable within this framework. It's more like cultural maceration, the guts are thrown away, and the brightly colored chitin is all that remains.

[93po]

This but for all of intellectual property. Outlawing humans doing whatever they want with ideas sounds like some Orwellian nightmare

[voakbasda]

Thats exactly the world we live in.

[93po]

I'm painfully aware

[jevoten]

> an influencer’s appropriation of a 3000 year old name

Most of the results for "artemis onlyfans/instagram" are Caucasian. Meaning it is overwhelmingly likely that the model in question is a descendant, at least in part, of literal Artemis worshiping pagans, and is thus not committing any appropriation.

[cultureswitch]

Hans get the skull measurer

[trinsic2]

That is a good idea for a perception campaign against this kind of practice. Calling it "Cultural Appropriation" might trigger more people on the progressive side to get involved...