Even emptiness can be plagiarized. See Cage's 4'33"
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3#Plagiari...
That page says that eight years after the supposed lawsuit "Batt admitted that the alleged legal dispute had been a publicity stunt and that he had actually only made a donation of £1,000 to the John Cage Foundation."[1] I guess that he plagiarized it is sure even if the copyright claim was not litigated.
reply4'33 is not empty! That is a common misperception. 4'33 is the sound of the ambient space around the listener. Each performance is unique.
replyIMHO they are both arrogant scoundrels for doing this.
replyits always seemed like a prank to me; and I'm impressed that he never broke during the performance to ask "are you people really falling for this???"
replyinteresting connection to Cage. Maybe Springer Nature also sees the empty pdf as a form of art? :)
replyAs it introduces the (very) reduced Planck constant, it's obviously worth $39.95 for historical value alone. A bargain at any price!
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