Copyrighted Music and Phones
Two Australian artists have written and copyrighted a composition that includes the notes corresponding to the touch-tone phone sounds for every conceivable 7- and 8-digit phone number. Therefore, they say that every time a phone number is dialed, they're owed a royalty. They say they're satirizing a culture in which almost every cultural idea is owned by big corporations. NPR's Rick Karr reports.
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