Thanks for your thoughtful response > I mainly objected to your 'Can I sample one without his permission?' since I don't think its the same thing. I understa

Thanks for your thoughtful response > I mainly objected to your 'Can I sample one without his permission?' since I don't think its the same thing. I understand your point and I agree that's the reality of it, but I'm saying that isn't how it has to be. It isn't the same thing in some qualitative ways, as you say, but mainly because Dylan chooses to make it different. Like all the FOSS developers, all those Grateful Dead bootlegs, and all those traditional folk tunes, and some folk singers (and other musicians) in the recorded era, he could have made his libre. My guess is that like Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds, and many others, he wouldn't be homeless, that is unless he prefers to keep traveling.