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[david]

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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