Ten year old intellectual property news:
Mike Batt's "classical crossover" eight piece orchestra, The Planets, featured variations of classical standards on their debut album, "Classical Graffiti." One track was "A One Minute Silence" and listed Batt and John Cage as composers. Cage's publisher sent a demand letter for royalties. A representative did note that "[i]f Mr. Batt wants to produce a minute of silence under his own name, we would obviously have no right to royalties."
The notes on "Classical Graffiti" explain it well: "I have nothing to say about this track."
Gunnar
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