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People settle out of court because they've been advised they'll lose more if it goes to trial

Despite settling, Batt maintains that the opposition had a weak case. "I remember saying to them, look, it's very clear that you cannot copyright a piece of silence - there's too much of it about! All this payment was, was me extending a hand of friendship."

I ring Nicholas Riddle, managing director of Peters Edition, for his view. "I understand exactly what he's saying," he explains. "But I think from our point of view we thought the case to be stronger."

Of course crediting the composition to John Cage/Batt rather than "Batt/Cage" might have influenced things.

Did it even flicker across Batt's mind that there might be such a brouhaha? "It did," he says, "to the extent that when I put 'Cage', I told the record company that it wasn't John Cage, but Clint Cage, Clint being just a figment of my imagination, and a registered pseudonym for myself. What happened was that someone in the system presumed it was John Cage and put the word 'John' in."

He apparently wrote the music for The Wombles. If I were him, I'd be terrified of some slick QC reading this out in an ominous voice as evidence of my flagrant plagiaristic tendencies

https://www.songlyrics.com/the...

Underground, overground, Wombling free
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we
Making good use of the things that we find
Things that the everyday folks leave behind

Uncle Bulgaria, he can remember the days
When he wasn't behind the times
With his map of the world
Pick up the papers and take them to Tobermory

Wombles are organised, work as a team
Wombles are tidy and Wombles are clean
Underground, overground, Wombling free
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we

People don't notice us, they never see
Under their noses a Womble may be
Womble by night and we Womble by day
Looking for litter to trundle away

We're so incredibly utterly devious
Making the most of everything
Even bottles and tins
Pick up the pieces and make them into something new
Is what we do

Underground, overground, Wombling free
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we
Making good use of the things that we find
Things that the everyday folks leave behind

Emphasis mine.

"The things that everyday folk - like for example John Cage - leave behind, Mr Batt?"

Also in the 80's countless British children died from HIV caught from junkie's needles attempting to 'womble' without wearing CDC approved anti infection gear - two layers of latex gloves, sterilized with bleach after use, NBC suits, gas masks and so on. Ironically children so dressed would have looked a bit like Wombles.

http://www.songlyrics.com/old-dogs/still-gonna-die-1998-lyrics/

Everybody dies -eventually-
http://www.songlyrics.com/old-dogs/still-gonna-die-1998-lyrics/

You know, what this is really about is not just protecting innocent children, - it's really about protecting our Freedom.

Freedom from the reds and the blacks and the criminals
Prostitutes, pansies and punks
Football hooligans, juvenile delinquents
Lesbians and left wing scum

Freedom from the niggers and the Pakis and the unions
Freedom from the gypsies and the Jews
Freedom from left wing layabouts and liberals
Freedom from the likes of you

To quote an old British song

With something as important as the British populations Freedom at stake, no wonder they go for the best Freedom-enhancing technology in the World.

[Carlin never said stuff, h]e said "shit". He talked about people running out of room for their shit and having to get a bigger house so they could put more shit into it.

No, he said "stuff". C'mon, dude, the title of the fucking album is A Place for My Stuff . Have some respect and don't misquote Carlin:

Actually, this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That's all; a little place for my stuff. That's all I want, that's all you need in life, is a little place for your stuff, ya know? I can see it on your table, everybody's got a little place for their stuff. This is my stuff, that's your stuff, that'll be his stuff over there.
That's all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That's all your house is- a place to keep your stuff. If you didn't have so much stuff, you wouldn't need a house. You could just walk around all the time.

I know your out there.

Oh mate, when can we have some good old-fashioned guitar-based rock? Never mind your disco pop-music monorail, here's 2 4 6 8 Motorway Rock on!

http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/Butterfinger /Breakfast_At_Fatboys/Yo_Mamma/250418.html

I've found that lyrics sites are very common offenders. Just Google some lyrics from a popular singer and you will quickly find an infinite source of spyware and adware. Now, they have ads for many different ineffective spyware removers on those sites as well, so they are doing their best to screw their visitors twice.

What you left out is...

Yeah, there's probably a lot more than that, too. History offered them a bubble, and they rode it. Heck, they even enjoyed it, too. You would have done the same thing. Probably did during the Tech Bubble. Yadda, Yadda.

Fix the problem, not the blame.

Every generation leaves it's own legacy which the next generation can either benefit from or, alternately, try to recover from. The Boomers got a free ride off the backs of those who survived the Great Depression and World War II. And they will leave a legacy for the rest of us.

Maybe that legacy will be cleaner air, solid social infrastructure, and a rest-of-the-world that feels included in our success, rather than being intent on blowing us up.

Or maybe their legacy will just be a Corporate Slave State, a few bronze statues to some out-of-fire-code buildings, and a bunch of records no one is licensed to listen to anymore.

Will the next generation be more familiar with Lennon the musician or Lennon the Dictator. Here's a hint: in this free country right here, right now, "sharing" the works of one will get you slapped with a lawsuit, but "sharing" the works of the other is allowed. Which one is more likely to survive the digital dark ages to come? I guess the Boomers just never learned that "If you love something, set it free." lesson.

Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today...

The good news? If they wake up now, they just might have a chance to mitigate the damage. Should we wake them up, or write them off as already lost?

Some artists do not even know they are subject to reimbursement or royalties from the RIAA, they just happen to sign up with a small company (which is part of)^n an RIAA member...

"I have wist, sin i couthe meen,
That children hath by candle light
Her shadewe on the wal iseen,
And ronne therafter all the night."

This is Old English.