Re: [microsound] Fw: Does John Cage have a copyright on recorded silence?

[Mark Khemma <mkhemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hahahahahhaha! John Cage must be rolling in his grave. I doubt that, had
he been alive today, he would make such a huge deal about it. funny
nonetheless.

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> > Big noises at odds over the sound of silence
> >
> > By David Lister
> > Media and Culture Editor
> > http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=307449
> >
> > 21 June 2002
> >
> > 'The Sound of Silence' may have prompted engaging harmonies from Simon and
> > Garfunkel - but a more literal appreciation of the absence of noise has
> > prompted one of the more curious copyright disputes of modern times.
> >
> > Mike Batt, the man behind the Wombles and Vanessa Mae, has put a silent
> > 60-second track on the album of his latest classical chart-topping
> > protégés, the Planets. This has enraged representatives of the
> > avant-garde, experimentalist composer John Cage, who died in 1992. The
> > silence on his group's album clearly sounds uncannily like 4'33", the
> > silence composed by Cage in his prime.
> >
> > Batt said last night: "I've received a letter on behalf of John Cage's
> > music publishers. I was in hysterics when I read their letter.
> >
> > "As my mother said when I told her, 'which part of the silence are they
> > claiming you nicked?'. They say they are claiming copyright on a piece of
> > mine called 'One Minute's Silence' on the Planets' album, which I credit
> > Batt/Cage just for a laugh. But my silence is original silence, not a
> > quotation from his silence."
> >
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