Attention all Prince fans!

Not even close Andrew and you know it.

Have you seen Prince's face on any tangible product without his permission?  Not me.

I highly doubt every single news outlet has reached out to the Prince camp to see if they can use his images and write about him to make money and drive tons of traffic to their site (most of which run ads).

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This is fair use of an image by a media outlet covered under your First Amendment and that's not a trivial difference. Not to defend the gossip sites because I have no real respect for TMZ but obviously broadsheets and traditional media have been doing this for hundreds of years as part of their role as the Fifth Estate. I have nothing personal against the soap maker, I think he might be doing it out of true respect and adoration but it's still not something I can personally approve of for my own personal reasons and I think that's were I'll end my part in this discussion.

at the end of the day, a ton of people and organizations do this type of stuff to make some money and marketing.

About the soap... That looks kinda odd to me.
On the other hand, I wonder if this discussion would even be taking place if it was a soap with an image of (e.g.) Elvis on it...

(...that one would also look kinda odd for me too, for the record...)

I wouldn't care for it either, lol.....