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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
hey, that chick was on 'this is not porn', on the page with the delivery van.
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yep.
I spent the rest of the day looking over my shoulder and jumping at shadows.
Wilco, I think, is the name of the band...did a piece called Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The stole, not "sampled" (a euphemism if I ever heard one) from this work and lost the court fight. They had to pay $$ to Irdial or the holders of the rights to the work. But it did help catapult them onto a much larger platform (NPR) from which I was able to learn about them. So, it worked out in the end.
The final crushing irony is that Irdial now has this corporate stance:
Irdial-Discs Embraces the Free Music Philosophy. All the music in their catalog is
freely downloadable. Now, I haven't read the license agreement, so I don't know if that would have gotten Wilco off the hook, but it does mean I don't have to order the
£40 4cd set from jolly old England. Yay for me.
In fact I downloaded the whole freakin package, including PDF liner notes (kind of a spooky read), from the
Internet Archive. You'll have to type up your own search. Actually I think I'll post this in the Cool Site of the Day thread too.
Enjoy!
