not exactly 313-related, but it might be of interest to some of you.
my apologies if it's already been posted.
now for some cuttin' and some pastin':
via matt belanger - ex-student extraordinaire
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DOWNHILL BATTLE -- DJ Danger Mouse's recent Grey Album, which remixes
Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles White Album, has been hailed as
a innovative hip-hop triumph. Despite that and the fact that only 3,000
copies of the album are in circulation, EMI sent cease and desist
letters yesterday to Danger Mouse and the handful of stores that were
selling the album, demanding that the album be destroyed.
"EMI isn't looking for compensation, they're trying to ban a work of
art," said Downhill Battle's Rebecca Laurie.
"Special interests, including the major labels, have turned copyright
law into a weapon," said Downhill Battle co-founder Holmes Wilson. "If
Danger Mouse had requested permission and offered to pay royalties, EMI
still would have said no and the public would never have been able to
enjoy this critically acclaimed work. Artists are being forced to break
the law to innovate."
The Grey Album has been widely shared on file sharing networks such as
Kazaa and Soulseek, and has garnered critical acclaim in Rolling Stone
(which called it "the ultimate remix record" and "an ingenious hip-hop
record that sounds oddly ahead of its time"), the Boston Globe (which
called it the "most creatively captivating" album of the year), and
other major news outlets.
http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html
and a mirror site in case the above link didn't work:
http://www.fatbits.net/grey/
