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Grey Tuesday Protest Aims to Get Music HeardToday is Grey Tuesday. Have you downloaded your copy of Danger Mouse's Grey Album yet? Bloggers and other website owners are offering MP3 downloads of the album in a coordinated online act of civil disobedience, a protest "signaling a refusal to let major label lawyers control what musicians can create and what the public can hear".
I'm listening to Grey Album now as I'm downloading it. I'm not sure how much I like it--I probably won't know for certain until after I've heard it again, since that's how it usually happens for me--but it chills me to think that creative projects like this can be stifled by copyright issues, or more accurately, the actions of a record company in enforcing copyright issues. (In this case, EMI, which, in claiming copyright ownership of the Beatles samples used on the album, requested that record stores destroy their copies of the album.) On the other hand, because of the Internet, the project isn't completely stifled--in fact, it's probable that more people are aware of this album as a result of EMI's actions. Well, it's not the first time EMI lost record sales due to a disconnect with potential customers. Anyone remember a little band called the Sex Pistols? You know, the little punk band that EMI fired? EMI must have been banging their heads into the walls for a few years after that mistake. Then again, maybe I'm wrong. What do you think? Is EMI making a bad call here, or have they made a worthy business move by protecting their copyrights?
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