RTP-area local music and culture

[Jennifer Halter <jenno AT email.unc.edu>]

Personally I think they should ask Paul & Ringo to decide.


Brian Russell wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --
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