Re: [microsound] shades of grey

[Shawn Hatfield <twerk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sounds like you've opened many cans of your own :)

On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 10:30  PM, ben nevile wrote:

>
>> since when did live pa's include playing other peoples tracks?
>
>
> giant can of worms.  at what point in the processing of an audio file 
> created by someone else does the work become "your own"?  or in a 
> programming context, if I take one of your patches and make a few 
> changes, is it now mine?  perhaps most importantly, are ownership 
> scruples like this keeping us honest, or holding us back?
>
> for the record, my music making - live and otherwise - almost always 
> makes use of data from music that I did not create.  sometimes it's 
> subtle and sometimes it's blatant.
>
> bbn

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