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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:32:27 -0500 (EST)
To: Dana Lacoste <dana.lacoste@peregrine.com>
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Subject: Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules
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Ahh, but that's 7 seconds of *PREFORMED* music.  This implies that no
matter how much past work has gone into it, if it can be run in under 7
seconds it can't be copyrighted.  I rather like this interpretation.
	Nick

On 20 Nov 2002, Dana Lacoste wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:57, Thomas Lang?s wrote:
> > If someone snags 10-20 secs of a song,
> > and puts it into his/her song that's violation of the copyrights (given
> > that the person didn't ask for permission). But, then there's "what's the
> > minimum"-question
> 
> 7 seconds for music.
> 
> What's 7 seconds worth of code? :)
> 
> -- 
> Dana Lacoste
> Ottawa, Canada
> 
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