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No its not a joke although it sounds like one. I heard about it on the radio 
on NPR (National Public Radio in the US - they got on the phone and called 
the British composer and interviewed him. They were asking if it had been 5 
minutes (longer than the Cage "piece") then it could not be quotation of the 
original piece unless there were a repeated section of silence. Its mind 
boggling. The English guy brought some of this one by listing the composer as 
himself and "Cage". Its sad that the Cage family is so money grubbing that 
they would stoop to this. I would just cut a new CD, and replace the silence, 
with some ambient empty room noise... a couple of footsteps and creaking 
chair would establish it as a completely original work of silence.

>LMAO. This is a joke, right? I can see the lawyers in court already:
>'Your honor, may we have a listen at exhibit A(which is a piece of
>silence) and exhibit B( which is also a piece of silence). Members of
>the jury, do you hear the similarities?'
>'Your honor, we want to file for a mistrial, since one of the jury
>members is deaf'.