| I come anew on this topic, just because I've seen this on a | webpage : ... | What are doing the lawers ??? It's a copyright infringement. :)
Indeed; that's what started this off. A couple of weeks ago, there was a great news report concerning a recording (from Mike Batt) that included a 1-minute silence that was attributed to John Cage. Mr. Batt reported that he received a letter from Cage's heirs complaining about this infringement. It seems that they didn't actually sue or anything like that; it was all done in "the John Cage spirit", and Batt and others had a great time discussing the issue and the deep significance of Cage's work. One of the better (with only a few clueless folks) is on slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/30/234250&mode=thread&tid=153 Most of the contributors seem to have gotten into the spirit of this great work of art. I even got a high rating from a story from the 80's, about AT&T making a copyright claim on a blank line, and how I had the nerve to openly publish the entire source (one blank line) of a program that they claimed copyright on. And AT&T's lawyers didn't hassle me at all. A lot of people were hoping that they would; it would have made a wonderful court case. We had some very similar discussions then of the absurdity of it all. It's gotten even funnier in recent years. | Talking about old games tunes, I'm transcribing some of them into | Abc (it was originally on a 3-voices Commodore C64), so it's a | proof Abc is good for every purpose. (I've even transcribed some | tunes from heavy metal bands into abc...) Great! This will certainly help bring abc to the attention of a new crowd. BTW, speaking of John Cage ... I just did a run of the search bot for my abc tune finder, and noticed a new index file pop up whose name starts with two zeroes. The index files use the first two chars of the tune's title in the name. I was curious by this title, looked at the file, and mentally slapped myself on the forehead. I'd forgotten that during the discussion, I'd come across Cage's later composition titled 0'00", and I made an abc transcription of it. Naturally, it's now the first "tune" in my index. Cage's instructions were very detailed. He said that it is to be performed by anyone on any instrument at any time. I suspect that there have been a lot of performances of this work. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
