Experimentalist composer John Cage is famous for his piece 4’33”, which is just silence of just that length. Recently, Mike Batt composed a piece of minute-long silence for an album. But, Cage’s lawyers didn't take kindly to that.
Mike Batt, the man behind the Wombles and Vanessa Mae, has put a silent 60-second track on the album of his latest classical chart-topping protégés, the Planets. This has enraged representatives of the avant-garde, experimentalist composer John Cage, who died in 1992. The silence on his group’s album clearly sounds uncannily like 4’33”, the silence composed by Cage in his prime. [...]
Stupid lawyers. (Link from Adam Shand’s Word Up mailing list)