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Copyright Battle Over Nothing

Posted by chrisd on from the sound-of-one-hand-clapping dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "In this story reported at The Independent is "one of the more curious copyright disputes of modern times." It appears that the key question is "which part of the silence was stolen." If only this was April First. This is a lawsuit suing over the sound of nothing, no sound, silence, nada, zilch, bupkiss.

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  1. Re:John Cage and 4'33" by jcr · · Score: 1, Troll

    John Cage's piece, 4'33", was actually very clever and quite a novel idea for its time.

    In a word: bullshit.

    Cage was a con man, and even less of a musical talent than Richard Wagner (if such a thing is possible.)

    -jcr

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