Re: Man strikes back against Seaside California order with boat mural

On 5/17/2024 3:38 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Thu, 16 May 2024 15:27:50 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
wrote:
 

On 5/16/2024 6:58 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Tue, 14 May 2024 15:18:33 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

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The same reason WAR AND PEACE and Beethoven's ODE TO JOY are speech and
the boat isn't.

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The lyrics in the Ode to Joy were definitely "speech" but Schiller's
not Beethoven's. )albeit Beethoven admired Schiller)

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A musical performance, with lyrics or as an instrumental, is speech
under United States law. Publishing the sheet music is press.
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Speech is more than just words.

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You don't say...
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Ah but is it YOUR speech or somebody else's? (Which was the point I
was making concerning who wrote the words to the Ode to Joy - which
I've listened to numerous times as I'm a huge fan of the 9th)

Alas, I was merely making a pun.
(But I don't think it's difficult, in practice, to distinguish the actual meritorious "free speech" elements of most any given action.)