Hi WAMUGgers
Are you breaching copyright by calling your mates? Have a look at
this gem which I have forwarded from the echalk mailing list.
Regards
Reg
Begin forwarded message:
Subject: [echalk] is your phone number playing copyrighted tunes?
Reply-To: "echalk email list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This should get the copyright people wound up!
When you dial a phone number, you can hear the numbers generate a
series of musical tones. What if these just happen to be a
copyrighted song?
http://www.magnus-opus.com/number_check.html lets you check.
Strangely Magnus Opus itself seems to have copyrighted a large
number of tone sequences a few years back. Enough to cover almost
every possible phone number in fact...
And of course if YOUR phone number generates a Magnus Opus tune,
you either buy a license from them or discontinue using the number.
Excellent!
"Warning: All of the melodies contained within the Magnus-Opus
series are protected by copyright. You may inadvertently be in
breach of international copyright law by using a telecommunications
device (telephone, mobile telephone, modem and other internet
devices) to transmit and perform one of the Magnus-Opus melody
series."
The site even has a "Top 100" tunes list
I think the creator, cited as Mr Nigel L W Helyer, P.O. Box 195
Balmain, NSW 2041 Australia, deserves congratulations for this
wonderful use of copyright legislation. I'd phone him but it'd be a
breach of copyright...
kp
