Microsoft Corp (MSFT)

[The Duke of URL]

Actually, Ace, anyone familiar with music knows that it is only the first 3 notes of "8 miles high" that are distinctive, and therefore possibly protectable. Perhaps Roger was thinking of his other song, "3 Miles High"

And as far as your rule of 17 Notes, they are like signs in the streets, they cannot set a hard and fast rule to live by. I commend you to the words of the Subject tune:

Signs in the street
That say where you´re going
Are somewhere
Just being their own
Nowhere is there
Warmth to be found
Just those afraid
Of losing their ground



Truth be told, the last four notes of the Microsoft shut down sequence are borrowed from The Rolling Stones, and were negotiated at the same time "Start Me Up" was negotiated... They are, as was revealed in the Microsoft Antitrust Trial, from the 1962 song, from the album, _Out of Our Heads_, "I Can't Get Me No Satisfaction.


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