brobible.com: The Winter Olympics don’t officially kick off until Friday, but there’s already been some controversy courtesy of a Spanish figure skater who said he’d been blocked from performing his Minions-themed routine on the world’s biggest stage. Thankfully, it appears reason has prevailed after the internet bullied Universal into backing down from the copyright claim that threatened to derail his trip to Italy.
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Anyone who spends any amount of time around me during the Winter Olympic season knows that I am a die-hard figure skating enjoyer. In an age of insecurity around men’s figure skating, a humorous program like this was to die for. I wish he’d qualified for the free skate (he was three points away!), and I wonder if it would’ve been a similarly hilarious program. Still, the men’s short program overall was much nicer to watch compared to the absolute disaster that the free skate was. The costuming for this one was objectively hilarious. He committed hard to the bit (to the point where I wonder if the costume’s lack of aerodynamics might have slowed him down.) Also, the last sentence of the article is hilarious. Just goes to show that the short program isn’t everything–who knows, maybe Sabate would’ve clutched up in the free program had he competed. Maybe a minion program could’ve won over Malinin.
I think this is just a really funny concept. In the Olympics, the height of athletic achievement, people are still making jokes and memes and having fun with their sport like everyone should. I love that Universal was fully stopped from making a copyright claim because the internet was a pro minion figure skater that they couldn’t do anything about it. I think this follows the trend, as the article mentioned, of Olympians becoming famous for something about their performance/event becoming iconic completely outside of their winning or not. What this shows to me is that there is value in enjoying what you do and know that there are more ways than winning to become memorable and leave your mark on something. I would like to watch the figure skater’s full minion performance and see whether or not he will become just as infamous as some other Olympians in the past.
I don’t watch the Olympics at all, I only really occasionally tune in for fun moments such as the wolf dog this year who ran onto the track. I hadn’t heard about this and I’m so glad I did now. This is hilarious, I’m so glad Sabaté was given permission at the end of the day to do his routine. People on the internet rallying together to make it happen is a rare instance in which I appreciate people and the internet for existing. Seeing people unite over something such as this is so fun to see. It also, I feel, represents Spain pretty well. I tune into Eurovision every now and then and I'm also originally from Spain, and I can tell you that Spain almost never takes this sort of stuff seriously. It’s just the sort of Spanish attitude and I’m always happy to see it. It’s fun to see Spain display that side where its just bullshitting and fooling around for the fun of it.
I think that its really scummy of Universal Studios to prohibit this man from doing his routine at the Olympics, one of the biggest stages in the world and no doubt one of the most important events of his career just because he was utilizing their music. Using that song wouldnt harm universal in any way and im glad that they were bullied into allowing him to use the song by the internet its really cool to see how the general populus can influence corporations, a lot of corporations need to be put in check since they are so used to getting away with everything, it's nice to hear stories of companies doing bad things and not getting away with, although universal will pull like this again for sure, since they haven't learned anything they just pulled back due to backlash- i think the internet should rally together more often to get things done like this since there are so many other things that people have been complaining about
When enough people are passionate about something it can change the minds of these large corporations, they would rather change their policies or points of views than face the fallout of a large-scale upset over their decisions. Internet perception can change how well a company does, so it is important that they take how their decisions will be received by the public into account when deciding to file claims or take action against people who are in positions of popularity. I have seen many instances of these large companies like universal and disney go back on decisions that they make due to a poor reaction by the media. While they usually pop right back to being seen in a generally positive light I think that these missteps should be remembered as the company continues to make controversial decisions. I hope that the performer feels confident performing now that he knows he has the internet’s support for his routine.
This is not the article that I expected to find when I read part of the title of this article. When I started reading the title of this article I was expecting to find an article that talked about people complain about the idea of their being a minions based figure skating routine. This would have been an article that I then would have agreed with, but this article was completely different from what I expected. In all I am not sure about how I feel about the content of this article. I never expected to see an issue with copywrite laws when it comes to the inspiration behind a figure skating routine. It dose make sense that companies would dislike a skater uses their characters as inspiration for a routine without there being a dialogue of approval between the skater and said company. It is interesting though to hear that other skaters have drawn inspiration and nothing happened with copywrite, but then a huge company like universal is the one to complain about minions of all things.
This is so funny to me and I really love it. Growing up, my dad has always been super into the Olympics, and so we watched a lot of it. Figure skating has always been one of my favorite events to watch, though admittedly, I don’t know that much about how it actually works. I love this artist’s choice to make his performance funny, the humor that he has brought to the routine sets it apart from other athletes. I think that in a modern age with social media, standing out and gaining popularity is an incredibly smart move for someone like this, who after the olympics will have gained popularity. I had also been wondering how the copyright laws worked surrounding the songs figure skaters use for their routines. I’m glad universal ended up allowing this routine to happen because it is truly a gem, one that the world needed to see.
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