The Way i Go

The winner of the LIVE FOREVER The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition was announced on Friday. “Baddest” is the MJ Public Domain Countdown by fi5e from Hong Kong. It is basically a billboard version of an online countdown that “counts down to the moment when all of Michael Jacksons’ creative content will enter the public domain. In 70 years when the clock reaches zero it will play Billy Jean on loud speakers, making it the first time the song is played free of copyright.” The simple design dispenses with the imagery of the King of Pop and focuses on what is shared, his music and the time when it becomes truly part of the public realm. That it can be installed anywhere — and in any form, that it is a billboard as well as a website means it can be ever more things — makes sense with its conceptual basis of the universality of Jackson’s songs.

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