“I can’t exactly say why there’s not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music. Maybe it’s Clear Channel’s ownership of so many radio stations. Or maybe it’s iTunes and Apple being a company that makes most of their stuff in China. Or maybe it’s because the outrage is just starting to really spark in the Midwest with all those insane Governors attacking the middle and lower classes.” – Adam McKay in Huffington Post
Film director and co-founder of Funny or Die, Adam McKay, has started a website for protest songs. (The protest song site can be found here.) The site offers downloads of Public Domain creative works which have no copyright restrictions at all. These songs may be posted anywhere and used in any way, for protests or not, by both sides of an issue. McKay is encouraging viewers to take these songs and use them, sample them or change them in whatever way best suits their cause. These songs are donations to the public with no strings attached. McKay also seeks contributions of songs from musicians across the world to be uploaded to the site, posted, and likewise contributed to the public domain.
McKay explains all of this in a commentary at HuffingtonPost.com.
