Klarinet Archive - Posting 000069.txt from 1998/04

From: "Joshua M. Coleman" <joshcole@-----.Edu>
Subj: Re: Copyright
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:51:54 -0500

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Scott Morrow wrote:

> Okay: what if you BUY the music and memorize it. Then you die in an
> accident and your brain is transplanted into someone who was brain-dead, but
> otherwise alright! And what if this brain-recipient now SUDDENLY knows how
> to play the clarinet (even though his doctor had told him he'd never be able
> to play the piano again!) and he performs the music you'd memorized without
> owning it or even having seen or heard the piece before?!!!!
>
> On second thought, forget the answer: I'm going to start work on the
> screenplay!

Okay, so what if you BUY the music, memorize it, die in an accident, after
which your brain is transplanted into another human, who can now play the
clarinet and can play the piece from your memory (as well as remember all
of your memories!!), after which he is abducted by aliens who read his
mind and thought and memories, so now they have obtained the piece. Isn't
this breaking intergalactic copyright infringement laws as well? So what
happens if those aliens die and their brains (or alien equivalents) are
transplanted to other aliens? Then what?!? Oh, my. The copyright
infringement lawyers would have a field day on that one.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist...)

Joshua M. Coleman
http://web.nmsu.edu/~joshcole
(Under construction always because I have NO TIME to do anything with it!)

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to
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If an elephant falls, which suffers more: the elephant or the ground?