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A bizarre legal battle over a minute's silence in a recorded song has ended with a six-figure out-of-court settlement.

British composer Mike Batt found himself the subject of a plagiarism action for including the song, "A One Minute Silence," on an album for his classical rock band The Planets.

He was accused of copying it from a work by the late American composer John Cage, whose 1952 composition "4'33"" was totally silent. On Monday, Batt settled the matter out of court by paying an undisclosed six-figure sum to the John Cage Trust...

"Mine is a much better silent piece. I have been able to say in one minute what Cage could only say in four minutes and 33 seconds."