What I meant was, the recording is half dial tone and half music, because they're overlaid with each other.
Subtract the dial tone and the music part is "half" the total copyrighted work (which includes the dial tone).
But the music part is still 100% copyrighted. Same way that if you publish a book with 200 pages, pages 1-100 are still 100% copyrighted even though they make up only half of it.
Subtract the dial tone and the music part is "half" the total copyrighted work (which includes the dial tone).
But the music part is still 100% copyrighted. Same way that if you publish a book with 200 pages, pages 1-100 are still 100% copyrighted even though they make up only half of it.