You can never--there's a strong legal precedent for not being able to make a claim about stolen bass, because these basses are limited in number, they involve rather simple harmonic progressions, and they've been used over the centuries.

可是你绝对不可能起诉别人抄袭低音部，这个强有力的法律判例，因为低音部的选择很有限，他们由很简单的和声进程组成，几个世纪以来一直在反复使用。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选