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Re: [microsound] just a tiny question



That's a tricky question, double of course since he's dead, but...
It depends on what you mean by ownership.  I don't think cage would have
been concerned about copyright, i.e. money, but from what I've been told
he was very insistent that his name be in the corner of all of his scores.


S.G.


On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:03:16PM -0400, Tone0010@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I couldn't really really find this information, so I figure this forum is 
> just as good a place to ask as any...
> what exactly was John Cage's position on the ownership of music? I mean 
> "ownership" creatively, though I did read about that legal battle over 4 min 
> 33 sec. So many people nowadays seem against ownership, but what was his 
> position really on the whole thing?