Comment PDVB Re: Inaccurate title: Happy birthday song was not copyrighted

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Happy Birthday Song Released to Public Domain

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Inaccurate title: Happy birthday song was not copyrighted (Score: 1)

by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2015-09-25 15:49 (#NJ5V)

The judge found that Warner/Chappell do not hold copyright to the song. It's not that it was released, it's that it was never really held.

Re: Inaccurate title: Happy birthday song was not copyrighted (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2015-09-25 15:57 (#NJ6D)

Either way, it was about time. Holding up copyright expiration (1976 and 1998) on recent works is bad enough. Somehow claiming they have an exclusive hold on a tune from 1893 is appalling.

Re: Inaccurate title: Happy birthday song was not copyrighted (Score: 1)

by pete@pipedot.org on 2015-10-04 13:05 (#PDVB)

Somehow claiming they have an exclusive hold on a tune from 1893 is appalling.
Makes me want to sing Happy Birthday outside Warner/Chappell's offices on the date of the original copyright. That wouldn't hit a nerve, would it? :D

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