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Weird Al, (was) a household name in parody (in the 90s,) has released his new single “Don’t Download This Song” for listenening on his myspace account (his myspace account?! For shame Al, for shame.) It’s a hilarious, tognue in cheek stabb at the RIAA.

Favorite line in the song:
“You start off stealing songs then your robbing liqour stores then selling crack and running kids over with your car.”

It really brings the ridiculousness of the RIAA’s tactics and propeganda to light in a way only Weird Al can. I suggest checking it out. Also there’s his song “You’re Pitiful” which James Blunt’s label wouldn’t let him put on his latest album so he’s offering it up free as well.

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As I brought to your attention the free public domain movies I’ve also come across some “Old Time Radio” that is also public domain. These are from back in the day when most people still didn’t even have black and white televisions and families would gather around their radios to listen to stories being told over them.

The list includes many of the greats such as Abbot and Costello, The Green Hornet, Gunsmoke and War of the Worlds. Interesting side note, the War of the Worlds [wiki] when it first came out was listened to by about six million people and about 1.7 million either ignored or did not catch the opening credits, since the story was played out like a news broadcast these people believed the story to be true and caused a bit of panic, but not as much as the newspapers that had picked up the stories had claimed.

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I found a very cool website chronicaling a list of movies, documentaries, tv shows, music, comedy shows and cartoons (I’m just going to lump them all as movies from here on) that have been released to public domain either willingly or copyright expiration. This means that these movies are free to be used in any way by anyone. It includes movies ranging from Fahrenheit 9/11 to Duck Amuck to Mark of Zorro (no this one doesn’t star Antonio Banderas) to everyone’s favorite Gayn*cough*ers from Outer Space.

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