On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:42:04 -0400frank <frankpirrone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arnold Krille wrote:> > Am Freitag, 21. März 2008 schrieb frank:> > > >> NO, the drum patterns are NOT copyright. If they WERE, once my head> >> cleared a bit, I would head directly to the USPTO and register every> >> damned note of the 12-tone even-tempered scale left unclaimed.> >> > >> > Please tell me when you do that. I will be the next in the line to register > > all the blue-notes and all the non-even-tempered notes. Basicly I would > > register all the frequencies not already registered by you... Would be really > > a lot of royalties.> > > Geez, Arnold, you are an idea monster! I had never considered > blue-notes OR microtonal possibilities at ALL. Well, there goes a small > fortune I could have locked up...> > But the sad part of this story is that someone really might get the idea of > > patenting the "music from even-tempered scale sounds". Which would involve a > > lot of people to successfully prove prior-art.> > > In that case I'd expect the PRIOR art to crush the SUBSEQUENT artist > attempting such a ploy...> > Arnold> > > Take care...> > Frank I have just applied for a patent covering a method of varying pitch onsuccessive notes such that, to the listener, they seem to fit anotherpatented scale but are actually randomly, but measurably different :) -- Will J Godfreyhttp://www.musically.me.uk_______________________________________________Linux-audio-user mailing listLinux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
