<div dir="ltr">I once thought that, "Hey, if I take a two-by-four that is long enough to cover all the keys on a piano, and slam it down on all the keys at one time, that I would thus create every other piece ever written, or that will be written"... I have since grown up...<br>
<br>I don't think any court would allow you to even consider this possibility, as there is an issue of context. A single sample by itself, has absolutely no relationship to another sample, and as such, would make each of these 65536 "piece" NON-unique. I think this would be like trying to create a piece with a single sound that is continuous, but never changes. Something, in my opinion, has to be unique to the piece to be able to claim copyright.<br>
<br>Now, if you wanted to create a sample file with TWO samples in it, you would need to create 65536 * 65536 sound files... That would be 4,294,967,296 sound files. And if played end to end in a single pass, it would last about 55 hours... I don't think I would mind missing that concert.<br>
<br>Mike<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:39 PM, marius schebella <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marius.schebella@gmail.com">marius.schebella@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">pit klong wrote:<br>
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> qewl. he could give us his patch and we'd make the same.. ;)<br>
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</div>in theory there are only 65536 different possibilites for amplitudes of<br>
one sample, so if you register 65536 pieces of music, each 1 sample<br>
long, then you you should be able to claim copyright from everyone who's<br>
music is based on amplitudes. maybe you can also register one sample of<br>
0, then you could even make money from people who don't make music.<br>
just imagine: you can claim copyright for every sample of every piece of<br>
music.<br>
<font color="#888888">marius.<br>
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