Universal Music have put a stop to Trent Reznor's planned Nine Inch Nails remix site, where fans would be able to upload their own remixes of NIN songs.
Reznor said on his official website, "Universal feels that if they host our remix site, they will be opening themselves up to the accusation that they are sponsoring the same technical violation of copyright they are suing [YouTube and MySpace] for. Their premise is that if any fan decides to remix one of my masters with material Universal doesn't own- a 'mash-up', a sample, whatever- and upload it to the site, there is no safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (according to Universal) and they will be doing exactly what MySpace and YouTube are doing. This behavior may get hauled out in court and impact their lawsuit."To summarise, the Universal Music Group is trying to guard it's property (NIN's master tapes) like a dog guarding meat and it sure as hell ain't going to let any "fan" do anything with those tapes, even with the artists permission.
