Copyright Claimed on Telephone Tones

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 3, 2001 @01:41PM from the ode-to-dtmf dept.

awful writes: "Two composers in Australia have copyrighted over 100,000,000,000 phone tone dialing sequences. They state in the article that they are lampooning copyright laws that protect big business rather than artists. Their website has more info and explains how they did it. You can check your number and make sure it hasn't been copyrighted by these guys. They have already recieved one offer of money - from a guy who wanted to purchase the copyright to his number so he could stop direct marketing firms from calling him." Somehow I don't think the inventors of DTMF envisioned this. Update: 10/04 14:11 GMT by M : There's a US mirror available.

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Re:Haiku by 575 · 2001-10-03 14:15 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Haiku are quite old
I've bastardized ancient art
Thanks for noticing
Re:Haiku by 575 · 2001-10-03 14:21 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Friend, this is Slashdot:
Who needs justification
To slam Microsoft?
from 907 it gives you an unused extension by human+bean · 2001-10-03 14:25 · Score: 1, Offtopic

on a switch in Chalkyitsik.

No Jenny there.

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