Grey Tuesday
 

http://greytuesday.org/

It's time for music fans to stand up and demand change from the music industry's copyright cartel.


Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site for 24 hours in protest of EMI's attempts to censor this work.

DJ Danger Mouse created a remix of Jay-Z's the Black Album and the Beatles White Album, and called it the Grey Album. Jay-Z's record label, Roc-A-Fella, released an a capella version of his Black Album specifically to encourage remixes like this one. But despite praise from music fans and major media outlets like Rolling Stone ("an ingenious hip-hop record that sounds oddly ahead of its time") and the Boston Globe (which called it the "most creatively captivating" album of the year), EMI has sent cease and desist letters demanding that stores destroy their copies of the album and websites remove them from their site. EMI claims copyright control of the Beatles 1968 White Album.

Danger Mouse’s album is one of the most "respectful" and undeniably positive examples of sampling; it honors both the Beatles and Jay-Z. Yet the lawyers and bureaucrats at EMI have shown zero flexibility and not a glimmer of interest in the artistic significance of this work. And without a clearly defined right to sample (e.g. compulsory licensing), the five major record labels will continue to use copyright in a reactionary and narrowly self-interested manner that limits and erodes creativity. Their actions are also self-defeating: good new music is being created that people want to buy, but the major labels are so obsessed with hoarding their copyrights that they are literally turning customers away.

:igor:

You want to make "New Music" learn to play a ******* instrument and write me a song.

Hehe. I'd forgoten what danger mouse looked like.

But the story is legit. Its unfair to Jay-Z and the Beatles too, but surely they could work somthing out. The songs are pretty decent (if you like that sort of thing), 'What More Can I Say' and '99 problems' are my faves from the album.

the only black album belongs to metallica.

I'm going to mix Metallica's black album with the Beatles White Album, and called it
...... Grey Metallic.:p

or Gray Metallic Beatle.

Like this?
[IMG]http://www.atypus*****beatle.jpg[/IMG]

;)

Heehee, that could work.

But really, EMI is just being a fucker because it simply can.

It's like a parent.

'Mom can I go outside and play?'
'No.'
'Why?'
'Because I said so.'

Fuck you.

i'm too young to be sure but i remember danger mouse being a tv show. is that true?

So they're trying to make it Phat Tuesday...
Uggh.

Stupid money hungry bastards. I got a copy of the gray album, its Phat..

Yup. Danger mouse was a TV show -- I used to rent the tapes and watch 'em.

I used to watch and love Danger mouse when I was a really small child - but I didn't remember it (I seem to have to surpressed a lot of things...weird) at all until I saw Bilbo and zoot wearing these DM t shirts - I still want one of those!!! :(

Mia:)

I've never really seen Danger Mouse, but I did see a lot of Mighty Mouse..
http://www.echara.com/mightymouse/im...00109_img2.jpg

Oh and theres him in real life:
http://www.dobhran.com/images2/mightymouse.jpg