Kickstarter project gets funded beyond all belief, then sued out of existence

[thewayne]

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)

Comments

[kylejcrb.livejournal.com]

Not only do I know of it, I've had the album for awhile. A real shame it had to happen to such a great tribute project. On one hand, I can understand the photographer's view, but on the other hand, it's very sad that he resorted to this sort of legal action and Baio had to settle for such an extreme amount.

[silveradept]

Wait, so because someone didn't like what happened, they chose to go straight to the lawsuit? That's using a sledgehammer to swat a spider. And what kind of perverse incentive is it to settle for more than most people are worth to avoid being sued for more than most families are worse?