What Counts as Music and Why?

Posted by michael on Friday October 3, 2003 @11:40AM from the perl-jam dept.

The Importance of writes "There has been much discussion about compulsory licensing schemes. Most of the debate has been about music. But what happens when any file can easily be converted into a sound file and back again? Can shareware authors convert their software to digital music and get paid for sharing it? Can pornographers get paid for turning images into sound? Scott Matthews has written a program (Ka-Blamo) that does the conversion. LawMeme looks at some of the issues. This raises the question, what should count as music and why?"

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That's Why by pete-classic · 2003-10-03 12:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

We have jury trials.

We can't define what's music, but we know it when we hear it.

But I'm drunk and didn't read the f-ing article.

Maybe it has something to do with having a beat and chords . . . ?

-Peter
Re:Stop. by Izeickl · 2003-10-03 12:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Bah mod me flamebait if you want. Im sticking with my opinion though. You know im right.

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