[Nettime-bold] re: <nettime> Does John Cage have a copyright on recorded silence?

["pieter" <smallaxe_nospam@xs4all.nl>]

Interesting case... some of you may remember how back in '77 or
thereabouts, the British punk group Crass opened their debut album *The
Feeding of the 5000* with their infamous "Reality Asylum" track, a
wonderful feminist anti-Christian, basically anti-everything diatribe
holding Christ Himself responsible for the deaths of Auschwitz, among
many other subtleties. The workers at the record plant refused to press
the record (still a wonderful example of workers' control over their own
labor circumsatnces if yoiu ask me). The album was finally released with
an opening track of several minutes of silence instead, entitled "The
Sound of Free Speech". I wonder which of the two came first, Cage or
Crass, and who should now sue whom.

PB

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"Disease and deprivation stalk the land like two giant stalking
things" -- Black Adder III

>To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
>Subject: <nettime> Does John Cage have a copyright on recorded silence?
>From: "nettime's deaf reader" <nettime@bbs.thing.net>
>Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:19:26 -0400
>Reply-to: "nettime's deaf reader" <nettime@bbs.thing.net>

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>Big noises at odds over the sound of silence

>By David Lister
>Media and Culture Editor
> http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=307449

>21 June 2002

>'The Sound of Silence' may have prompted engaging harmonies from Simon
and
>Garfunkel - but a more literal appreciation of the absence of noise has
>prompted one of the more curious copyright disputes of modern times.

(...)

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