From another list-serv - a bit of a giggle for you....
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Intellectual Property Run Amok
http://www.motherjones.com/news/exhibit/2006/03/intellectual_property.html


"FOR INCLUDING a 60-second piece of silence on their album, the Planets
were threatened with a lawsuit by the estate of composer John Cage,
which said they'd ripped off his silent work 4'33". The Planets
countered that the estate failed to specify which 60 of the 273 seconds
in Cage's piece had been pilfered."
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Jill L Schneider
USGS-Alaska Technical Data Unit
4200 University Drive
Anchorage AK 99508
907-786-7457
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