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[Carrie McLaren <carrie AT stayfreemagazine.org>]

Title: Stay Free! | March 7

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SONY SENDS LEGAL THREATS TO ILLEGAL ART ISP

> If there's anything more mind-numbing than dealing with
> legal threats it's writing about them, so I'll keep this short:
> Capitol/EMI seems to have backed off on its threats to sue us (and
> others that have posted DJ Danger Mouse's Grey Album) but now
> Sony has stepped forward with threats of its own. There are, after
> all, two sets of copyright for every music recording: rights to the
> composition and rights to the master recording. EMI owns the rights to
> the master recording of the Beatles' White Album (which the
> Grey Album samples) but Sony owns the compositions. This past
> week, lawyers at Sony/ATM told our internet service provider (ISP) to
> take down the Grey Album recordings from the Illegal Art
> Exhibit site or risk legal action. Our ISP complied, but we're now
> happy to report that we've moved the site to another web host. The
> Grey Album is once again now available, along with other
> "infringing" works, at http://www.illegal-art.org. Thanks to
> our ace legal team (EFF, Kurt Opsahl, and Kohel Haver)  and the Online Policy Group for helping get us back up.

MEANWHILE,  HAPPIER LEGAL NEWS...

> Stay Free! just received a contract asking us to
> approve the use of Stay Free! issue #21 as set dressing for an
> upcoming Hollywood production... which means that at some point
> during The Jacket (starring Adrien Brody, Kris Kristofferson,
> and Jennifer Jason Leigh), a copy of Stay Free! may appear. The
> fact that companies feel they have to clear every copyrighted or
> trademarked item that appears on screen is problematic but, hey, I've
> always wanted to be a product placement.
>

INTERVIEW WITH CARRIE McLAREN OF STAY FREE!

> http://www.crimewaveusa.com/pages/articlepages/stayfree.html
> (I did this a year ago but it's still mostly relevant.
> >From the fine zine Crimewave USA. )

UPCOMING NYC EVENTS

Saturday, March 13, 10:30 pm - Stay Free! is sponsoring a screening of Wizard People and Harry Potter Parking Lot at the New York Underground Film Festival. Hope to see you there! Anthology Film Archives, 2nd Ave. at 2nd Street.

> Wizard People: Brad Neely took the first Harry
> Potter movie, cut out the sound, added his own narration and -- voila!
> -- Wizard People. Apparently, the home-made mutation was so
> hilarious that NYUFF folks leapt at the chance to show it. As I have
> yet to see it, I'll take their word for it.
>
> Harry Potter Parking Lot is another installment in
> Jeff Krulick's "Parking Lot" series, this time documenting
> mega-fans waiting in line to meet author JK Rowling. Memo to non-New
> Yorkers: you can watch this short online.

Saturday and Sunday, March 13-14,  Socialist Scholars Conference at Cooper Union. Stay Free! will be tabling on both days.

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Carrie McLaren
Editor, Stay Free!
www.stayfreemagazine.org
www.illegal-art.org
718.398.9324