Simon Willison’s Weblog

Excellent cause

The sooner the music industry learns they cannot stiffle creativity and free sharing of "legal" material the better

Andy - 24th February 2004 18:45 - #

Couldn't it be Metallica's Black Album instead of Jay-Z's?

Ah well - good cause to support Simon!

Chris O'Brien - 24th February 2004 19:33 - #

I changed my weblog to grey for this...

...and I got an e-mail from my mother thanking me for making the colors easier on her eyes. Ai-yah.

Micah - 24th February 2004 21:26 - #

Hell yeah.

Chris Vincent - 24th February 2004 22:12 - #

Doh... I thought the colors on my monitor were jacked up when I saw this...

rick - 25th February 2004 00:37 - #

The menu floats over the main page in IE6. Cheers

Sam - 25th February 2004 11:09 - #

I have a grey CSS theme but that's coincidental and yes I agree the EMI Cease and Desist sample letter did have some serious flaws, even with my basic knowledge of UK and International Copyright practice I picked up a few erroneous demands within the e-mail myself.

Robert Wellock - 25th February 2004 14:24 - #

You know, I think I actually preferred the grey scheme - any chance of a choice of stylesheets? :)

Danny - 25th February 2004 16:28 - #

Re: Chris O'Brien's Metallica suggestion

1. Metallica are rabidly anti-filesharing, so using their album would have jeopardised the legal defence position for The Grey Album.
2. Jay-Z purposely made an acappella version of The Black Album so that remixes like this could be made.
3. US Copyright law doesn't cover records made before 1970 (IIRC), so there's no worries on sampling The White Album.

Tim - 1st March 2004 12:36 - #