EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> I'd like to add... if you're referring to sentences or 
> paragraphs then forget it! My last post only applies to 
> phrases that, on there own, are not likely to hold water 
> as a copyrighted work. For example, there are numerous 
> songs that contain the words, "I love you." -- a phrase 
> that, in and of itself, is not a copyrightable work, but 
> the recording of the phrase is definitely protected. It 
> is the recording that I am responding to. I am not 
> drawing any conclusions about how many words or joined 
> phrases warrants a copyright. You'll have to use prudent 
> judgement in that case.. Jer


Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely have to check out that book you
mentioned sometime. 

A friend of mine (very much into "new-age" stuff, e.g. books by
"channeled" authors etc) keeps sending me huge reams of "insightful
quotes", some of which would be pretty fun to use in a song. 

A lot of the quotes are from people I've never heard of before, and a lot
are from probably old authors possibly out of print now and/or deceased,
which I'll call "Type A quotes". Some examples (though I wouldn't want to
use all of these in songs): 

"Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what
nobody has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold
weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." -
Leonardo da Vinci

Some hwoever are "ancient proverbs" or attributed to "Anonymous", which
I'll call Type B quotes.. 

"Some pursue happiness -- others create it." - Anonymous
"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn
out." - Anonymous
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person
doing it." - Chinese proverb


In your opinion do you think the "Type B" quotes would be any more "legal"
to use? And do you think the "Type A" quotes are effected at all if the
original speaker is now deceased? 


Cheers!
Jeremy
http://www.ixks.com/~sadus