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[david]

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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