[Rumori] viva Beatallica

[David Dixon]

Sony is not going to pursue legal action against Beatallica, according to 
Peter Paterno, one of Metallica's lawyers, who negotiated with them on our 
behalf.

We will be sending Sony a "confirmation memo" on Monday to assure this. 
Once that memo is confirmed, beatallica.org and all of its content will go 
back up, and we will continue as before.

We've also been invited to speak at the upcoming Berkman Center symposium, 
"Signal or Noise II," which will address mashups, collage, and other 
transformative ways that consumers become creators.  The first "Signal or 
Noise" proceedings can be found here: 
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/netmusic.html

So yes, we've gotten a lot of free publicity (and thereby, a lot of new 
fans), but now the real work begins.  Beatallica got lucky by having a 
high-profile band & lawyer on their side, but what about GABBA 
(http://www.gabba.co.uk/) or The Misfats (http://www.misfats.com/), or any 
number of  tribute bands not yet on the internet?

Our battle has resulted in a truce for now, but the battle for the right to 
freely remix popular culture continues.

D^2
Webmaster of Puppets
(not speaking for Beatallica, for obvious reasons)