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Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

so any silence in youtube videos is now a copyright violation.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 10 points 3 hours ago

Now that's a court case I'd actually watch closely. Sooner or later they'll run out of things to squeeze money from, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone eventually tried this.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I think it's my favorite song he's done.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Wait... This isn't posted in The Onion?!?

[–] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Honestly, it’s better than his 90’s catalogue.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Frankly astonished he’s alive although

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Actor Dick Van Dyke is due to turn 100 next month, so Paul's got room.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

WTF, Paul McCartney want's to pay him royalty's for the silence?

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Worked for Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence - so well that Disturbed covered it about a decade ago.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 hours ago

Yes exactly, Paul McCartney want is to pay him royalty is for the silence, as a form of protest against Spotify paying out "AI artists".

[–] ironicmetamodernism@lemmy.nz 69 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I won't be listening to that.

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[–] dumbass@piefed.social 77 points 15 hours ago

So an album full of covers of John Cage's 4 33.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Great, but weird way to protest. What are the optics even?

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