Artist Sends Truckload of Forms to GEMA to Protest Copyright Laws torrent downloads
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You got to hand it to the Germans, they know how to protest. News is surfacing that a German artist, who was fed up with copyright laws, decided to protest by creating a song that required 70,200 forms to be filled out.
It may not be quite as funny as Sony BMG being raided and sued for software piracy early this year, but it sure is a good one all on its own. According to a report on FoeBuD (Google Translated), which is a member of EDRI, Johannes Kreidler, a German artist composed a 33 second song which quotes 70,200 musical works protected by copyright.
While it is a legal gray zone in some countries, apparently you are legally obliged to send GEMA a form for every copyrighted work you quoted from in your musical works.