grey tuesday - an online protest
Brian Russell
brussell at ibiblio.org
Tue Feb 24 09:42:15 EST 2004
www.greytuesday.org
From the above website:
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.
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