February 24, 2004
Today is Grey Tuesday
As explained on the Grey Tuesday site, this is a protest against censorship being exercised by some elements of the music industry, notably major label EMI Records:
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.... 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.
Sadly, I'm way too busy today to put this album up on my Web site (though I would love the traffic) but I do plan to track it down and listen to it. I hate censorship, even in the guise of protecting copyright.
Posted by artandscience at February 24, 2004 02:00 PM