BBC News E-mail: Silent music dispute resolved

From: Vance R. Koven <vrkoven[_at_]world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:17 +0000

Vance R. Koven saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you should see it.

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Here is the denouement of the copyright case between a British rock musician and the estate of John Cage over Cage's silent composition 4'33". I had not been following this previously, but it stsrikes me that under US law the idea-expression dichotomy would have been a show-stopper for the Cage estate (Cage's piece was a novel *idea* but there's just about only one way of expressing it). I wonder what concepts under UK law would have made the Cage estate think it had a better chance there?

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*Silent music dispute resolved*
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/music/2276621.stm>

Musician Mike Batt pays a six-figure sum to settle a bizarre dispute over who owns copyright to a silent musical work.

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