EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of PersingEP@..., 23-07-2002:

>It's simple...music means the sounds aren't isolated and are presented with
>other sounds as a musical composition...we don't judge artistic merit.

That's not simple imo.  Really, I'm not making propaganda for any 
sort of illegal activity here.  I just think that all this copyright 
& licensing stuff has extremely fuzzy borders -- and that this will 
never change, no matter how hard everyone tries to protect his/her 
own work.
Define "not isolated" for instance.  There's plenty of modern music 
that has loads of isolated sounds -- a "pling" here and a "ploing" 
there.  Where is the border between music and non-music?  What 
percentage of the duration of a piece may consist of isolated sounds 
before it is no longer "music"???
Heck, John Cage even wrote a piece consisting of 4'33 of silence -- 
and now some sod is being sued by Cage's family for copyright 
infringement on that, since he also recorded a piece of silence or 
whatever.  If that is not fuzzy, then what is?

>Believe me, we have many more problems with out and out piracy than people
>trying to do the crazy hypothetical situations everyone is firing at me here.
>The people breaking the law are not so subtle!

Sure, if I wanted to break the law, I would simply burn a copy of 
your CDs somehow.  Way easier than the hypothetical scenario outlined 
before.  Still the very fact that there can be no completely 
clear-cut borders between "theft" and "original work as condoned by 
the license" is interesting in itself.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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