"Food of Love", Part Two

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Yesterday we published the first batch of "If music be the food of love ..." competition entries. Today we publish the rest.  So, "If music be the food of love, then copyright is ..."

THE FOOD CHAIN

… the salt that in judicious quantity heightens the enjoyment and in excess renders all unpalatable (Anthony Gallafent, Gallafents)

… the preservative (natural, organic preferably); Do not give me excess of it, but enough to encourage the musicians to play on... (Chris Rycroft, Lewis Silkin)

… the hotly debated E colouring within that food, a debate which is never far from the media’s eye (Ben Prangell, Shipley Solicitors)

 … the bright, red ketchup of creativity— a rich and popular source indeed! (Denise McFarland, 3 New Square)

… a bit like marmite: you either love it or hate it! ((i) Alex Freelove, Herbert Smith; (ii) Andrew Clemson, Cleveland)

… a farmer, who uses manure (traditional protection) and undoubtedly harmless chemical fertilizers (advanced protection, keeping the recent developments of technology in mind) instead of doubtful chemical fertilizers (too strong a protection, which hinders the broad public availability of copyrighted material), in order to grow the crops which provide the said food (Kunal Chandra Agrawal, National Law University, Jodhpur, India)

… dessert (Rebecca Dimaridis, Jeffrey Green Russell Solicitors

… the kitchen (Sunelle Geyer, Department of Mercantile Law, UNISA)

… the Tupperware we use to keep the mice off (nb. mouse can gnaw through current Tupperware thickness in 50 years, although there is some risk of European chefs inserting extra (albeit thinner) Tupperware inside all new and even existing products (Dave Sant, BBC Future Media & Technology)

… the way to feed the composer and spread the love (Mary Smillie, Bird & Bird LLP)


IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH

...its prophylactic (Nigel Urwin, Lee Bolton Monier-Williams)

... the fridge that preserves it for others to enjoy long past its sell by date (Ben Prangell, Shipley Solicitors)

... the recipe for love going insane (Aliki Foinikopoulou, Greece)

… the gastric bypass (James M. Dedman IV, Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A.)


SELF-AWARENESS AND DISCOVERY

… the morning after (Steve Hartman, Novartis)

… probably the reason why I am fat and happy! (Andrew Clemson, Cleveland)

… the wise man's drug (Rebecca Dimaridis, Jeffrey Green Russell Solicitors)


AND THE WINNER IS ...

… a madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet (Désirée Fields, McDermott Will & Emery) [Says the IPKat, this looks like an elegant graft, a literary nod to Romeo & Juliet].  Well done, Désirée! Please get in touch so we can organise your prize, complimentary admission to the Music and IP Conference on Wednesday 8 December.

"Food of Love", Part One

It has taken too long to get round to sorting out the best entries, but the "If music be the food of love ..." competition received a far larger response than usual. No entries were disqualified for arriving late or for not being contained within an email entitled "Food of Love", though we know who you are ...  Some entries were a little difficult to understand and required some intellectual input on the part of the judges, but we got there in the end.

The identity of the winner of the prize -- complimentary registration for this year's CLT "Music and Intellectual Property" conference on 8 December (programme and registration details here) -- will be announced tomorrow, along with the winning entry. Today, for the edification of readers, the 1709 Blog lists a sample of the better if ultimately unsuccessful efforts. Thanks, by the way, to all the entrants: your wit and in some cases wisdom is very much appreciated.

First, let's remind ourselves of the rules. Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night opens with Duke Orsino saying

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it".

Competitors were asked to complete the following sentence: "If music be the food of love, then copyright is ..."   Today's batch of 10 entries has been tidily subdivided into "Law and Commerce" and "Philosophy, Culture and Aesthetics", though readers will see that these are in some cases only very loose descriptions.

LAW AND COMMERCE

... a bill of attainder (Anton van Dellen, 8 New Square)

… the tab (Henry Ward, 8 New Square)

… the prenuptial agreement (Ben Farrand, European University Institute, Department of Law, Firenze)

… the barcode on the box of heart-shaped choccies (Graeme Fearon, Thring Townsend Lee & Pembertons LLP)

… to ensure that,
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before….
at least we can get paid for it (Mike Edwards, Audible Magic LLC)

… ... what
Cheer’d EMI with justice of their cause,
With promise of high pay and great rewards:
But all in vain; they had no case to fight,
And for them no hope to win the day (Mike Edwards, Audible Magic LLC, via Henry VI, Part III)

… a method and composition for limiting unauthorized regurgitation (no prizes for guessing that fellow blogger Michael Factor, JMB, Factor & Co., is a patent attorney)

PHILOSOPHY, CULTURE AND AESTHETICS

… the joy of writing (Khadijeh Hamidian)

… responsible for turning the “Free Love” of the 60s and 70s into the “Tainted Love” of the 80s (Andrew Clemson, Cleveland)

… the pearly wisdom gates above (Rebecca Dimaridis, Jeffrey Green Russell Solicitors)

… why every serenader must sing his own song (Peter Smith, Serjeants)

More tomorrow!

"Music and Intellectual Property": a conference and a competition

Well, someone's got
something to sing about ...

"Music and Intellectual Property" is the title of a one-day conference which CLT Conferences is running on 8 December in Central London. Subtitled "Identifying, Protecting and Enforcing Rights in Music", the programme features a double input from the 1709 Blog: Ben Challis (General Counsel, Glastonbury Festivals Ltd) speaks on "The Glastonbury Tales: the Practicalities of Festival Life and IP", while Jeremy Phillips takes the chair for the day. There are some other excellent speakers too, and the day promises to scintillate.  You can see the full programme here.

There's a competition running along with this conference, the prize being complimentary admission -- and the fabled free lunch. It goes like this. Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night opens with Duke Orsino saying

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it".

Your task is to complete the following sentence:

"If music be the food of love, then copyright is ..."

Closing date for entries is 17 November. Competition entries should be emailed to Jeremy at the 1709 Blog with the subject line "Food of love".