Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.

[Alec McLane <amclane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:51 PM 6/17/2006, seva wrote:
> At 8:10 PM -0400 6/17/06, steven c wrote:
> > Wonder if John Cage sued over the editing
> > of his
> >  > "4'33"?
>
>
> there was a recent case where someone excerpted a recording of the 
> 4'33", and attributed it to cage, but did not ask permission, nor 
> pay royalties.  they were sued successfully by the publisher.  and 
> as it should be.

Not from a recording, actually, and the suit was settled out of 
court. The composer was Mike Batt, who simply credited a 1-minute 
silent track on his album, Classical Graffiti, to Batt/Cage.

Here's an informative Wikipedia entry on the piece:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%2733%22

which points to this BBC story on the lawsuit:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2276621.stm

Alec


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