Re: [linux-audio-user] Cactus Data Shield copy controlled cd's

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Cactus Data Shield copy controlled cd's
From: Jan Depner (eviltwin69_AT_cableone.net)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 23:45:32 EEST


Daniel,

        I hope you were being facetious (it's hard to detect sarcasm in
print). That is a standard blues riff.

Jan

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 03:52, Daniel James wrote:
> > > What I meant was that if you ask a musician directly, they are
> > > often modest and ready to acknowledge influences, where as the
> > > marketing people come up with all that 'best band in the world'
> > > or 'greatest singer of all time' stuff.
> >
> > Yes, that's usually the case, with notable braggart exceptions...
> > <cough>Oasis</cough>
>
> I actually heard one of the Gallagher brothers claim that the opening
> to 'Cigarettes and Alcohol' was not a direct lift from Get it On by T
> Rex (released as Bang a Gong in the US for some bizzare censorship
> reason). He claimed it was a standard blues riff - yeh, right.
>
> With four of the five members of T Rex now dead, I guess their estates
> didn't have the money to mount a legal challenge. I suppose that's
> what intellectual property is all about - if you can afford a team of
> lawyers, then you've got those rights.
>
> Cheers
>
> Daniel


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