Re: The Sound Of Silence

["Scott Fraser" scottbfraser]

<<Didn't Cage sue someone for Copyright when their song contained an
extended period of silence?? I have a vague recollection of something
along those lines.>>

There was a CD which contained a long silent section, which the artist/ 
composer (can't remember who just now) jointly credited to himself &  
John Cage. Cage was deceased at the time, but his publisher took the  
position that since this was being considered a performance of a Cage  
piece that proper royalties were in order. The publisher was awarded  
mechanical royalties for the inclusion of the piece on the CD, by a  
court in the UK, IIRC.

Scott Fraser