Remix Radiohead's New Single -- for $5?!

Wow, pretty weak.

yeah the $5 bit blows, but it is totally awesome that they are making the individual instrument tracks avail... i dont think anyone has ever done that before, have they? many a dj & producer have only dreamed of this... if it were only 33 cents a track it would be just plain rad.

Not to play the NIN card, but Mr. Reznor offers several multitracks for free that can be remixed and shared over at remix.nin.com

That makes this look even weaker.

I'm not saying NIN is bad, but would you reather mix NIN songs or Radiohead songs? It would be fun to mix NIN songs for free, but i think Radiohead songs would be a lot better to mix than NIN songs if you have the extra $5 to spend on it.

I was wondering whether this was something to do with licensing vs. a sale so I had a look at the Terms and Conditions (imagining that the remixer of the work would be given a fair deal, making the $5 slice much more reasonable.... my god, I was very very wrong)

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

You (the Entrant) hereby agree, confirm, represent and warrant that:

1. all rights in and to any remixed versions (“Remixes”) of the song “Nude” (“the Song”) created by the Entrant shall be owned by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (“WCM”) and to the extent necessary the Entrant hereby assigns all rights in the Remixes of the Song to WCM throughout the World for the full life of copyright and any and all extensions and renewals thereof. If requested by WCM, the Entrant shall complete and sign a formal assignment of copyright to give effect to the foregoing;

2. all rights in and to any Remixes of the original sound recording of the Song (“the Master”) created by the Entrant shall be owned by _Xurbia _Xendless Ltd (“Xurbia”) and to the extent necessary the Entrant hereby assigns all rights in the Remixes of the Master to Xurbia throughout the World for the full life of copyright and any and all extensions and renewals there. If requested by Xurbia, the Entrant shall complete and sign a formal assignment of copyright to give effect to the foregoing;

3. Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway will be registered and credited as the sole writers and WCM the publishers of the Remixes of the Song created by the Entrant;

4. the Entrant will not acquire a copyright interest in the Song by virtue of creating Remixes of the Song;

5. the Entrant will not use any other elements or parts of the Song (“Stems”) otherwise than to create Remixes of the Song for entry into radioheadremix.com;

6. the Remixes of the Song do not incorporate any samples which are subject to third party proprietary rights (for the avoidance of doubt this includes but is not limited to, other Radiohead sound recordings owned by EMI Records) or otherwise infringe the rights of any third party;

7. the Remixes of the Song are not obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encouraging of conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability, or violate any law; and

8. the Entrant will not exploit, or allow others to exploit, the Remixes of the Song created by the Entrant without seeking the prior approval of WCM and Xurbia.

9. by submitting Remixes to radioheadremix.com, the Entrant agrees to release and hold harmless Apple Inc from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of such Remixes.

In submitting Remixes to radioheadremix.com the Entrant confirms and warrants that they have full power and authority to enter into this agreement and hereby indemnify WCM and Xurbia from and against any and all costs and damages incurred as a result of any breach of the representations and warranties made by the Entrant herein.

Xurbia shall not commercially exploit the Remixes of the Song created by the Entrant without consulting with the Entrant prior to such commercial exploitation.

radioheadremix.com reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to remove Remixes from the website that it deems offensive or inappropriate and/or Remixes that breach any of the above terms and conditions.

i guess in a way it balances out though...radiohead sold their album for free, even though they really dont need the money from a new album, i guess its only fair to charge for other things like the remix stems, i mean....its only 5 bucks, a new album would cost about 15