{"id":1563,"date":"2004-11-17T07:21:44","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T12:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/damn-the-pirate-queen-or-disney-at-least\/"},"modified":"2004-11-17T07:21:44","modified_gmt":"2004-11-17T12:21:44","slug":"damn-the-pirate-queen-or-disney-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/damn-the-pirate-queen-or-disney-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"damn the pirate queen &#8211; or disney, at least"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just after i <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/hail_the_pirate_queen_black_catalog_coming_online.html\">praised<\/a> good works by queen,  along comes their label (or rather, the parent of their label, i suppose), and lays down the lawyers to defend the empire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>back in september, good musigeek waxy brought brought us a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/archive\/2004\/09\/23\/kleptone.shtml\">bit<\/a> on te kleptone&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/pages\/downloads_hiphopera.html\" class=\"broken_link\">night at the hip-hopera<\/a>, and went the extra mile, mirroring the work and tracking down a really comprehensive sample list (credit where due)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>then today, waxy gets a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/archive\/2004\/11\/17\/disney_s.shtml'>letter<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Disney hereby demands that You immediately remove from any website owned or operated by You or on Your behalf, all music tracks containing any part of any song by Queen, and any other property of Disney, and that You provide me with a letter by November 23, 2004, in which You confirm that You have complied with the foregoing and that You agree not to resume such use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>i know this will get plenty of play with the net&#8230; but i just wanted to give waxy and the kleptones a thumbs-up for music, and disney a big thumbs-down for making me feel bad about queen again.<\/p>\n<p>creative protest?  i dunno.  i&#8217;m just sorry that disney is so weak in this culture that it can&#8217;t handle what it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/000788.shtml\" class=\"broken_link\">done to others<\/a> since the good old days of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/steamboatscript.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">uncle walt<\/a> [pdf].<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/11\/17\/legal_threats_for_li.html\" class=\"broken_link\">boingboing<\/a> has it.  it&#8217;s got legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just after i praised good works by queen, along comes their label (or rather, the parent of their label, i suppose), and lays down the lawyers to defend the empire&#8230; back in september, good musigeek waxy brought brought us a bit on te kleptone&#8217;s night at the hip-hopera, and went the extra mile, mirroring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}