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19 November 2014

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How much gold is in silence?

SILENCE and gold. Are they related? We have previously mused on the copyright status of the John Cage composition 4′ 33″ – four-and-a-half minutes during which not a single note is played (1 November). Delightfully, we discover a small but perfectly formed study of the issue of copyright and silence in the form of an essay at .

It reveals that when musician Mike Batt put a track called A One Minute Silence on…

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