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From: "Kevin M. Ryan" <kevinmr@uclink.berkeley.edu>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 9:04 PM
Subject: RE: [idm] Confield
quoted 4 lines <<Autechre has thought about this, according to an interview I read, but> <<Autechre has thought about this, according to an interview I read, but
> have held back because supposedly you can only copyright a specific
> recording, so people could legally resell the music generated by such a
> cd. Personally I think that's crap, there must be a way to handle the
legal
quoted 5 lines issue, but I'm no lawyer.>>> issue, but I'm no lawyer.>>
>
> Couldn't they simply copyright it as a software CD rather than a music CD?
>
> Besides, I have plenty of (copyrighted) music CDs that have computer
programs
quoted 2 lines on them (KRS-1 and Penal Colony come to mind first), although nothing like> on them (KRS-1 and Penal Colony come to mind first), although nothing like
> that. <shrug> I'm no lawyer either, so I'm probably vastly
oversimplifying
quoted 2 lines things. (Anyway, it's not about the money: it's about the music, dude =)> things. (Anyway, it's not about the money: it's about the music, dude =)
>
Think I read the interview in question. The problem was that they'd be able
to copyright the software, but not the music it created each time it was
run. Thus, the end user (read: listener) could copyright the end product
themselves. So the rights problem lies in the results, not the software.
Still, you'd think they could tag on a user agreement regulating the output
or somethin'.
All that said, I'm not familliar with the other cases you mentioned. Might
be the same thing. A shame in any case, it *would* be fun to hear the
results.
Joe
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