It might be interesting to blindfold some lawyers and run some samples past their ears to see if they could identify the original source with any accuracy at all. ;-) munkeyfreenix batcat wrote: > depends on whose lawyers notice your copyright infringement first. > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Norval Watson wrote: > > > If I sample some funky silence, do you think they can work out if I > stole it from Michael Jackson or from James Brown? > > > QUOTE QUOTE QUOTE (blame yahoo) > 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. :-/ -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
