[LAU] [Packet-in-user] album files (it isn't a troll)

frank frankpirrone at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 18:42:04 EDT 2008


Arnold Krille wrote:
> Am Freitag, 21. März 2008 schrieb frank:
>   
>> NO, the drum patterns are NOT copyright.  If they WERE, once my head
>> cleared a bit, I  would head directly to the USPTO and register every
>> damned note of the 12-tone even-tempered scale left unclaimed.
>>     
>
> Please tell me when you do that. I will be the next in the line to register 
> all the blue-notes and all the non-even-tempered notes. Basicly I would 
> register all the frequencies not already registered by you... Would be really 
> a lot of royalties.
>   
Geez, Arnold, you are an idea monster!  I had never considered 
blue-notes OR microtonal possibilities at ALL.  Well, there goes a small 
fortune I could have locked up...
> But the sad part of this story is that someone really might get the idea of 
> patenting the "music from even-tempered scale sounds". Which would involve a 
> lot of people to successfully prove prior-art.
>   
In that case I'd expect the PRIOR art to crush the SUBSEQUENT artist 
attempting such a ploy...
> Arnold
>   
Take care...

    Frank




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