Bernie And His Marvelous Mittens. It's All Good Fun Until A Copyright Lawyer Gets Involved

If you live on Planet Earth and own a smartphone, computer or TV, you have probably already seen the viral meme of Senator Bernie Sanders birthed at the historic 46^th U.S. Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 2021 for President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris. There, Senator Sanders was unknowingly photographed wearing a winter coat, sitting on a folding chair socially-distanced from the other attendees, with his right leg crossed over left and his hands mirroring the same position adorned in bespoke, now famous, handknit mittens. This image of Senator Sanders was so well-loved that he visited the globe, the Moon and Tatooine, travelled back in time then back to the future, joined the cast of movies and TV shows, hung out in people's homes, went to sporting events, and was spotted in contexts too innumerable to mention without ever having left the Inauguration. The photographer who captured this image, Brendan Smialowski, a photojournalist for Agence