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well, it's not my favorite hoax. my favorite claimed that metallica wanted to copyright the chord change E major F major. it said that this was their signature and anyone else using it would confuse their fans.
i thought that it was a hoax when i heard that the family of john cage was trying to enforce copyright on cage's 4'33" because, if taken to a limit, it meant that if you did nothing for 4'33" you owed the cage family royalties. but that was not a hoax. at the same time, you need to actually perform the piece 4'33" to owe royalties. you can't accidentally owe them. or something.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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