Re: [LAU] (no subject)

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 10 2009 - 12:00:27 EEST

It might be interesting to blindfold some lawyers and run some samples
past their ears to see if they could identify the original source with
any accuracy at all. ;-)

munkeyfreenix batcat wrote:
> depends on whose lawyers notice your copyright infringement first.
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Norval Watson wrote:
>
>
> If I sample some funky silence, do you think they can work out if I
> stole it from Michael Jackson or from James Brown?
>
>
> QUOTE QUOTE QUOTE (blame yahoo)
> Forget about DRM. What does the RIAA say about your unauthorized use of
> silence in your music?
>
> Oh, and you mean the "going-out-of-business newspapers"?
>
> munkeyfreenix batcat wrote:
> > And what does DRM have to say about your unauthorized citation of
> > silence? Hmm?
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday 09 July 2009 23:12:09 drew Roberts wrote:
> > > On Thursday 09 July 2009 13:10:08 you wrote:
> > > > We could call it 4'33"
> > > Yeah but there could well be copyright issues if one person
> > quotes another
> > > person's nothing.
> >
> > No, until now citations are allowed if they stay within
> reasonable size
> > compared to the original. So you aren't allowed to quote the full
> > silence but
> > quoting short extracts from empty mails is okay... (*)
> >
> > Arnold
> >
> > (*) Of course, german newspapers are working towards making
> > citations non-free
> > of charge. :-/

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