Musician to Deliver a Truck Full of Song Reports to Rights Owners

If you need to register a song at GEMA (RIAA, ASCAP of Germany) you are requested to fill in a form for each sample you use, even the smallest bit.

German avant-garde musician Johannes Kreidler (photo) wants to employ his art as means of pointing out towards the asynchronity of the notion of copyright. He has composed a song in which no less than 70,200 samples from other tracks are to be found in only 33 seconds. To prove his integrity he went by the book and reported all of the songs he used to the German music rights organization GEMA. Yes, a noble action, however, there might be a bit of a problem: To report each and every song included on his “project”, the musician must also fill out a separate form for each and every song. How peachy, isn’t it?

According to Kreidler the song in question is a musical question mark placed next to the concept of copyright (and its legitimacy) in our digital era. "Copying is a form of culture, and technological progress always wins", Kreidler recently said in a statement at a press conference.

It seems that the German artist is determined to make no compromise and send a truck full of filled out forms to GEMA on September 12th.