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<div>"Has anyone seen the Fiat commercials . . . that use music that sounds to me like snippets from Cage's Music for Prepared Piano. Certainly inspired by this music, if not note-for-note, timbre-for-timbre exactly. . . .
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<div>"I wonder if the Cage estate is getting royalties? (or what his opinion was about the concept of royalties...)"</div>
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<div>I found a commercial for Fiat at <<span style="font-size: 10pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAlfH332iw> Is this one of the commercials you mean? The sounds resemble Cage's only passingly to my ears (they sound, maybe, a little more like the ones
in John Adams's _John's Book of Alleged Dances_), and the foursquare rhythm doesn't help matters much, either. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As for the question of royalties, C. F. Peters sued the musician-producer Mike Batt about ten years ago for copyright infringement (Batt included a silent track on an album called "A Minute and a Half of Silence for John
Cage" or something similar to that). They settled out of court and the settlement was rumored to be six figures. I hate to utter this overly-uttered phrase, but in this case I think Cage would have approved. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">All best,</span></div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Rob Haskins, D.M.A., Ph.D.
<div>Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Liberal Arts</div>
<div>University of New Hampshire</div>
<div><rob.haskins@unh.edu></div>
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