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Celebrities get wide latitude to protect themselves from imitators. Impressionists can do "satire" etc. but this isn't that. It's explicitly a reference to her voice in the movie, and as such she's protected by law from them going around her and hiring someone else to imitate her.
Well maybe Scarlet needs to start pay royalties to millions of Midwestern women. Because she didn't come up with that way of talking on her own now did she?
This argument is so stupid it's even remarkably stupider than the surrounding comments in a lemmy thread full of braindead bot humpers.
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