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Re: The Sound Of Silence

Subject: Re: The Sound Of Silence
From: "Scott Fraser" scottbfraser
Date: Tue Jan 6, 2009 11:33 am ((PST))
<<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





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