Kind Of Blue: Using Copyright To Make Hobby Artist Pay Up
Found on Techdirt on Thursday, 23 June 2011
One of the really fun projects that Andy did was to record an album called Kind of Bloop -- an 8-bit tribute to the classic Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue.
For the cover, the obvious choice was to do an 8-bit rendering of the original Davis cover, and he, Andy, got a friend to put it together.
Andy had a very strong argument to explain how what he did was legal... and still agreed to pay $32,500 for a fun little side project he was making no money on. He was chilled into paying up, because the fight is just too expensive.
When someone hasn't done anything illegal and still is forced to pay a settlement because he cannot affort going tocourt, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the legal system and it needs to be corrected.