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Authored by: hardmath on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 10:28 AM EDT

Film-maker sues Warner Music to invalidate Happy Birthday song copyright

Should be fairly easy to prove. Back in the day publication without copyright notice was sufficient to put the sheet music in the public domain.

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Rosser's trick: "For every proof of me, there is a shorter proof of my negation".

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Interesting, how many other such might there be?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 01:17 PM EDT
Should be an interesting case.

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fyi: Copyright status - Wikipedia
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 04:00 PM EDT
The origins of "Happy Birthday to You" date back to the mid-19th century, when two sisters, Patty and Mildred J. Hill, introduced the song "Good Morning to All" to Patty's kindergarten class in Kentucky.

In 1893, they published the tune in their songbook Song Stories for the Kindergarten. However, many[who?] believe that the Hill sisters most likely copied the tune and lyrical idea from other popular and substantially similar nineteenth-century songs that predated theirs, including Horace Waters' "Happy Greetings to All", "Good Night to You All" also from 1858, "A Happy New Year to All" from 1875, and "A Happy Greeting to All", published 1885.

The Hill Sisters' students enjoyed their teachers' version of "Good Morning to All" so much that they began spontaneously singing it at birthday parties, changing the lyrics to "Happy Birthday".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#Copyright_status

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The BSPs are probably working
Authored by: albert on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 04:04 PM EDT
on legislation to allow the copyrighting of public domain works.

Wouldn't that be something?

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  • retroactively n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 04:07 PM EDT
  • preemptive - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 11:13 PM EDT
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