10. Eva Longoria – Look, I Own The Picture
OK. Here’s another way celebrities rack up dollars via social media. They retain the rights to pictures of themselves that they post. Doesn’t sound like much? When the former Desperate Housewives’ star Eva Longoria posts a picture to, say, her Twitter feed, she retains the rights to the picture. So, if anybody wants to use it, they pay. Or say Tom Hanks posts a message to Twitter, a candid moment on a movie set or the like, he retains the rights to the picture. Not only do they make money, but they retain the right to say how the picture is used. A double whammy. This whole idea comes from a newish company WhoSay. Think it amounts to chump change? Well, think about this: If Scott Disick, a former boyfriend of Kourtney Kardashian, gets $20,000 for a picture, imagine what someone like Tom Hanks or Eva Longoria can pull in.
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