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Re:FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Cle... by iamben on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:32AM (#12233071)

It's an interesting one for sure. I wonder how it would apply to Hip Hop, for instance. Rapper has deal (money/product/whatever) with a brand and endorses them through song. We don't really have liner notes anymore, but it's clearly paid promotion. I appreciate this isn't a 'post', but the article talks about sitcoms. And if you take music as 'art', there's probably a case where you could argue your instagram/video/whatever was 'art'.

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Re:FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Cle... by ugexe on Friday August 05, 2016 @12:07PM (#12233392)

Hamburger Helper even put out an entire mix tape

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Re:FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Cle... by improv32 on Friday August 05, 2016 @01:48PM (#12234343)

And it actually wasn't that bad

https://soundcloud.com/hamburgerhelper/sets/watch-the-stove

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Re:FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Cle... by cmdrfred on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:36AM (#12233098)

Rapper: YO YO YO, Mister Clean has it all, I use it before I ball, check it.

Fast speaking car commercial voice (quietly in background): Paid for by Mister Clean enterprises inc, the views in this song do not represent Mister Clean.

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Re:FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Cle... by donatj on Friday August 05, 2016 @12:03PM (#12233348)

For a real example:

    Me not working hard?
    Yeah, right! Picture that with a Kodak
    Or, better yet, go to Times Square
    Take a picture of me with a Kodak

From Pitbull "Give me Everything"

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Re:FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Cle... by tehwebguy on Friday August 05, 2016 @12:06PM (#12233378)

That rhyme was unforgivable even without the possible endorsement.

See other possible endorsements here: http://genius.com/rapstats?q=Michael%20Kors%2C%20Gucci%2C%20...

Not sure where to draw the line for Gucci though since a rapper is called Gucci Mane and it means something else to say "I'm Gucci"

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Re:FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Cle... by cmdrfred on Friday August 05, 2016 @12:45PM (#12233757)

Has to be an ad, why wouldn't you go with something like this artistically?

    Me not working hard?
    Yeah, right! Picture that with a Kodak
    Or, better yet, go to Times Square
    Take a picture of me with some Cognac

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Re:FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Cle... by CPLX on Friday August 05, 2016 @03:30PM (#12235145)

Because if you're Pitbull your entire existence on the planet is diametrically opposed to the creation of anything with genuine artistic merit?

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