so any silence in youtube videos is now a copyright violation.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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Now that's a court case I'd actually watch closely. Sooner or later they'll run out of things to squeeze money from, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone eventually tried this.
I think it's my favorite song he's done.
Wait... This isn't posted in The Onion?!?
Honestly, it’s better than his 90’s catalogue.
Frankly astonished he’s alive although
WTF, Paul McCartney want's to pay him royalty's for the silence?
Worked for Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence - so well that Disturbed covered it about a decade ago.
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Yes exactly, Paul McCartney want is to pay him royalty is for the silence, as a form of protest against Spotify paying out "AI artists".
Great, but weird way to protest. What are the optics even?
So an album full of covers of John Cage's 4 33.
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