[NTLK] Newton song

Laurence W Brown lwb at mac.com
Tue Jun 30 16:35:56 EDT 2020


or, one could do a Francis Scott Key (too lazy to check spelling), and use some old song long in the public domain—they can be simple to work with, even if not on the "radio"

-L.W. Brown
via 8s+

> On Jun 30, 2020, at 12:14, B <kosmicdollop at saber.net> wrote:
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> Frank wrote:
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>> Excellent! More!
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>>> ?I love you Newton, oh yes I do?? ? to the tune of ?We Love You Conrad?
>> 
>> Well, that's exactly the problem. Everything that's "to the tune of"
>> something is, in all likeliness, infringing copyrights left and right.
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> Hmmm..
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> Much as I’d like to think Newton is prominent in current culture...
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> Frank, do you really think amateurs fiddling with a tune on this email list would grab an attorney blood hound’s attention?
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> My sense is Newton is pretty much off humanity’s radar.
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> Long as there’s no promoting and no selling, I suspect we don’t need to worry about legal sharks.
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> Maybe even if somebody put it on YouTube or some such, if there were no mention of the source title, I suspect it wouldn’t need a shark cage, would stay under their radar.
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> B
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