Uh-huh.  Did anyone note the source for this bit of info?  "Widely reported, Summer 2002."  It's 
also been 
widely reported that Mikey from the Life cereal commercial died from eating Pop Rocks and 
drinking soda, but 
that don't make it so.

Funny item, but what's it doing in a supposedly legitimate piece of reporting on an important 
topic?

Jeff Martin
Chicago, IL



----- Original Message -----
From: Jill L Schneider <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:05 pm
Subject: Intellectual Property Run Amok

> 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
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> 
> "FOR INCLUDING a 60-second piece of silence on their album, the 
> Planetswere 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 
> secondsin Cage's piece had been pilfered."
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> Jill L Schneider
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