Re: (idm) autechre : who's to blame?

From Andrew Hime
Sent Mon, Jul 12th 1999, 21:01

> > I recall somebody trying to patent it a while back, but giving up when
> > prior art was discovered. To my knowledge, the first album to do this is
> > _Initiation_ by Course of Empire. To my knowledge, this process is NOT
> > patented. I am perfectly open to being wrong if someone can back it up
> > with more information.
> 
> just as a clarification: i was saying that because that's what greg at
> warp gave as an excuse (cf. a previous message on idm-l).  i suppose
> both nothing & warp have the lawyers who know the do's & don't's of any
> recording venture so-as-to-not-get-sued-up-the-ass.

Nothing's pretty small - I'd venture that they don't.