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

[Folderol]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:42:04 -0400
frank <frankpirrone at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

I have just applied for a patent covering a method of varying pitch on
successive notes such that, to the listener, they seem to fit another
patented scale but are actually randomly, but measurably different :) 

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk