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| Artist | Other |
| Show | Beatallica+-+Beatallica+(2004)+[flac] |
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| Torrent | Beatallica+-+Beatallica+(2004)+[flac].torrent (click to download) |
| Downloads as | Beatallica - Beatallica (2004) [flac] |
| Info hash | dc6c669b0c5765472bd9e618050cae16bf3fe2e1 |
| Description | Beatallica - Beatallica EP (2004) (aka "The Gray EP")
FLAC format
1. Blackened the USSR
2. Sandman
3. And I'm Evil
4. Got To Get You Trapped Under Ice
5. Leper Madonna
6. Hey Dude
7. I Want To Choke Your Band
8. We Can Hit The Lightz
master CD -> WAV -> FLAC
homepage: http://www.beatallica.org |
| Type | Other |
| Last seeder | Last activity 20:11:15 ago |
| Size | 197.53 MB (207124236 Bytes) |
| Added | 2005-10-11 00:37:46 |
| Views | 0 |
| Hits | 1570 |
| Snatched | 2294 times |
| Upped by | starkeffect |
Num files
[See full list] | 14 files |
Peers
[See full list] | 1 seeder, 0 leechers = 1 peer total |
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| GURT |
2005-10-11 00:59:58 |
thanks!
before anyone has a spaz fit..
this is officially okay with the band. the seeder.. starkeffect is the bands web master. |
| k_b |
2005-10-11 10:08:24 |
| These guys are hilarious. Be careful, I randomly find myself singing "Hey Dude" |
| baustin420 |
2005-10-11 12:18:02 |
These guys are great! I've got a huge grin on my face listening to this.
-ba |
| redbread |
2005-10-11 18:32:20 |
I thought it would be appropriate to post the following 2 questions from the Beatallica faq section. As someone loosely associated with Sony/ATV (note I said loosely) my initial thought was wtf! but it seems everything is okay.
DO NOT SELL THESE RECORDINGS AND THERE WILL BE NO PROBLEM.
What happened with Sony? Did they sue you? Was Lars behind it? In February 2005, we were served with a cease-and-desist order from Sony/ATV Publishing, who owns the Beatles catalog, for willful copyright infringement. We were not sued; we were being threatened with a lawsuit if we didn't cease all Beatallica activity and pay "an amount to be discussed" in damages. Word got out, lots of articles and blog entries were written about us, over 10,000 people signed an online petition, and soon Lars Ulrich from Metallica contacted us to offer his support. He enlisted one of his attorneys to negotiate with Sony on our behalf, and as a result they have chosen not to pursue legal action against us at this time (although they maintain their right to do so in the future.)
Why did they go after you anyway? Aren't these songs parodies, and thus protected as "fair use"? Are they going to sue Weird Al next? It turns out to be a lot more complicated than that. The legal notion of "parody" is different from the way you and I understand it. In order for a song to be a parody, it has to directly criticize or comment on the original artist or song. In other words, you can make a parody of a song by The Beatles that makes fun of The Beatles, and that's protected as "fair use"; the "2 Live Crew" case is an example of this.
If you use someone's work to make fun of someone else, that's not always protected. It's considered "satire," not "parody." A good example of this is the "Cat NOT in the Hat" case. So what this seems to mean is that most of Weird Al Yankovic's songs are not technically parodies. He doesn't have to worry about litigation though; he always asks permission to release his satirical songs (because he can afford to). Notice that Weird Al has never released a Beatles parody.
"Fair use" is a very fuzzy part of copyright law, decided on a case-by-case basis, so unfortunately the only way you can prove that what you're doing qualifies as fair use is to go to court.
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| starkeffect |
2005-10-11 19:10:29 |
redbread:
No worries-- Beatallica has never sold any CD's, not even at shows. The music has always been freely available via the website, p2p, etc. There have been cases where people tried to sell Beatallica CD-R's on eBay, and certain overseas music download sites have charged for the music; either we or our fans have sent polite letters to ask them to remove the auction/content, and most of the time they comply.
We thought that by not making any money off the music itself (by selling CD's), we were protecting ourselves from lawsuits. All of our earning were from T-shirts (none of which had copyright-infringing artwork) and from live shows (covered under the venue's ASCAP/BMI license).
We were wrong.
As the copyright laws are now, Sony/ATV has valid legal recourse to go after us anytime they want, even if we continue to give away the music for free. The "non-commercial use" test is only one of four prongs of the "fair use" doctrine.
Like I mentioned in the FAQ you quoted, the only way you can demonstrate that your derivative work falls under fair use is to go to court, and a typical copyright infringement court case costs around $200,000. Sony can afford that. We can't... at least, not on our own.
So at the moment we have an uneasy truce with Sony/ATV. We have a new song (recorded in 14 different languages!) that's recorded, mixed, and ready to go. We are withholding its release as a good-faith gesture until negotations with Sony (which are still ongoing) reach a resolution. |
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