I think it is libel, since it is a video. (Historically if it was a lie spoken about someone then it was slander, and if it was a lie written about someone then it was libel. I think that a fake video is more like an intentionally false written piece.)

In any case, collecting damages for lies told about is possible. I’m not sure it can be done in time for the election, and the people seeing it on TikTok probably won’t ever know about the case, so mission accomplished, I’m afraid.

You can trademark it, but that doesn’t apply retroactively, and then you have to vigorously defend it or you will lose the trademark (which is why corporations are constant sending cease and desist letters to their own fan clubs).

In general you can’t claim copyright over something that someone else has made. That’s kind of the point.

“We all need an event like the World Cup to bring people together, now more than ever, and I sincerely thank the President of the United States for his support, as this demonstrates once again that football unites the world.”

What the actual fuck?

In possibly the most ironic case ever, the state tried to compel one of its citizens to put their motto on his license plate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooley_v._Maynard

I came to say exactly this. 😅

Of course people don’t want to visit the US.

I’m personally boycotting a conference which foolishly decided to go ahead in San Francisco later this year.

But the article is about immigration visas, not tourist visas, and I think conflating them is not helpful.

These are immigration visas, not tourist visas.

The justification for Iraq was weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

I don’t understand this idea that the left is to blame for the right. Surely the right is to blame for the right?

I don’t understand. Does your comment mean that you don’t like the proposal?