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This guy wants to create a recording of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, but he wanted to record it as an 8-bit chiptune style, like the old Nintendo recordings of years gone by.
Cool. He gets funded massively. Gets a guy to do a pixel interpretation of the album cover.
And then he gets sued by the photographer and has to settle.
What was done was clearly transformative, but equally clearly he didn't have the money to fight and win. He even got the EFF on his side, but still he had to settle. The photographer said he would never license his work for for such a pixelated transformation.
Very sad.
The original project: http://waxy.org/2009/05/kind_of_bloop/
The loss: http://waxy.org/
The project, with samples of the recordings: http://kindofbloop.com/
(I'm assuming Kyle already knows of this)
Cool. He gets funded massively. Gets a guy to do a pixel interpretation of the album cover.
And then he gets sued by the photographer and has to settle.
What was done was clearly transformative, but equally clearly he didn't have the money to fight and win. He even got the EFF on his side, but still he had to settle. The photographer said he would never license his work for for such a pixelated transformation.
Very sad.
The original project: http://waxy.org/2009/05/kind_of_bloop/
The loss: http://waxy.org/
The project, with samples of the recordings: http://kindofbloop.com/
(I'm assuming Kyle already knows of this)
