In honor of tomorrow's Grey Tuesday civil disobedience event (in which sites are encouraged to mirror copies of DJ Danger Mouse's Grey Album, which mixes together the Beatles' White Album and Jay Z's Black Album, a 3,000-pressing CD that attracted the maximal wroth of Capitol Records's bullying copyright lawyers), Capitol Records has already produced a threatening letter telling you just what you can expect if you take their precious. Good to see copyright protecting creativity here, by stamping it out — as if the existence of this album will cost either The Beatles or Jay Z a single, solitary sale.
We are aware of the so-called "Grey Tuesday" event, sponsored by http://www.downhillbattle.org and described on the http://www.greytuesday.org website as a "day of coordinated civil disobedience" in which participating sites will make the unlawful Grey Album available for downloading, distribution, and file-sharing in order to force "reforms to copyright law that can make sampling legal." Your site is listed among those that will engage in this openly unlawful conduct. Any unauthorized distribution, reproduction, public performance, and/or other exploitation of The Grey Album will constitute, among other things, common law copyright infringement/misappropriation, unfair competition, and unjust enrichment rendering you and anyone engaged with you in such acts liable for all of the remedies provided by relevant laws. These remedies include but are not limited to preliminary and permanent injunctive relief as well as monetary and punitive damages necessary to remedy your openly willful violation of Capitol's rights.
(Thanks, Kevin!)
