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Warner Brothers goes After "American Edit" | MP3s
"Today is Dean Grey Tuesday, a net-wide day of protest over Warner Brothers attempt to censor a stupendous noncommercial mashup album called American Edit that remixes Green Day's album American Idiot. For today, websites across the Internet are mirroring the American Edit album and/or turning their page-backgrounds grey...." [Boing Boing]
BONUS: Boing Boing also links to "an MP3 of Jimmy Castor's relentlessly funky Seventies tune 'King Kong.'"
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Posted on December 13, 2005 9:43 AM
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why did u decide not to take part?
Posted by Anonymous | December 13, 2005 11:19 AM
Warner has every right to prevent anyone other than Green Day (and their label) to profit from 'smashes'. Smashes are samples, the law is clear on this. Since, it appears, that Dean Gray is not doing mixes to make money then he should be in the clear... maybe even praised by Warner for helping indirectly 'market' the band. Copyright law is really simple... if someone made something that someone else used or sampled to make money then the person who started it all gets a piece of the action - if it wasn't pre-negotiated then expect to see lawsuits. It's called 'credit where credit is due' and if you've ever created something you appreciate people looking after it for you.
Posted by Anonymous | December 13, 2005 3:43 PM