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[Jon O .]

Yes, your telephone is now a circumvention device:

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/2001/10/04/FFX0PGT0CSC.html

Copyright: your number's up

By FERGUS SHIEL
Thursday 4 October 2001
  
Listen up, they've got your number. Australian composers Nigel Helyer, aka Dr Sonique, and Jon Drummond have copyrighted 100,000,000,000 telephone tone sequences.

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If business can claim ownership over the elemental building blocks of human life, the composers say it's only fitting that artists lay claim to the "DNA" of business and are paid for it.

"We're saying to (big business), 'Okay guys, the boot is on the other foot. If you really believe in copyright, you've got to pay'," Helyer says.

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/2001/10/04/FFX0PGT0CSC.html