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. :-/