Re: The Sound Of Silence

["Scott Fraser" scottbfraser]

<<Love the anecdote of Cage sueing over the use of 'his' silence - if
that is true he must have had balls of brass as you say 'pondside' !
I assume his case failed ? Copyrighting 'silence' - absolutely
brilliant, has made my day ! :-)However, at the risk of making more
balls ups, I am sure the score for 4'33" was/is available to
purchase, therefore is published presumably with the usual
copyrighting, and this may have been Cage's premise in his law suit ?>>

As I pointed out in a followup post, this 'story' is apocryphal. Cage  
was dead at the time of the lawsuit, it was his publisher pursuing the  
issue & the person being sued had (unwisely) chosen to include Cage's  
name as co-composer of the silence, thereby tacitly acknowledging a  
debt. The publisher won what was, on a strictly legal basis, an open &  
shut case. Had the artist simply not added Cage's name to the credits  
there would have been no case.

Scott Fraser