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Title: Happy Birthday! Post by: pxib on September 30, 2015, 02:46:50 PM Song has (at least temporarily) fallen into the public domain (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html):
Quote None of the companies that have collected royalties on the "Happy Birthday" song for the past 80 years held a valid copyright claim to one of the most popular songs in history, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled on Tuesday. In a stunning reversal of decades of copyright claims, the judge ruled that Warner/Chappell never had the right to charge for the use of the "Happy Birthday To You" song. Warner had been enforcing a copyright since 1988, when it bought Birch Tree Group, the successor to Clayton F. Summy Co., which claimed the original disputed copyright. Judge George H. King ruled that a copyright filed by the Summy Co. in 1935 granted only the rights to specific piano arrangements of the music, not the actual song. A third of the royalties from the song go to the Hill family's Association for Childhood Education International, and that accounted to $754,108 last year... so this isn't chump change. Also current royalty payers may decide to pursue most-recent copyright holder Warner Music Group for back payments. Title: Re: Happy Birthday! Post by: schild on August 04, 2016, 02:25:45 AM I am so glad that, theoretically, I never have to hear a made up version of this fucking song at a restaurant again after this news disseminates.
What a lame ass song to hold fake copyright over. Title: Re: Happy Birthday! Post by: pxib on August 04, 2016, 09:24:57 AM Apparently Warner settled a class action lawsuit by artists and filmmakers for $14 million rather pay all of the back royalties it received for lyrics it never actually owned. Back in February. (http://www.reuters.com/article/warner-music-lawsuit-settlement-idUSL2N15O1N8)
Good morning to you. Title: Re: Happy Birthday! Post by: Yegolev on August 04, 2016, 10:58:30 AM Is that really a ten-month gap in first and second posts?
I'd be fine if all versions of this song would just cease to exist. And McCartney as well. Title: Re: Happy Birthday! Post by: Trippy on August 04, 2016, 11:06:28 AM A (now banned) gibberish poster necro posted and then schild posted.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday! Post by: schild on August 04, 2016, 01:27:48 PM i take all the blame for this
whoops in my defense it was VERY early in the morning/late at night and my brain is fried Title: Re: Happy Birthday! Post by: Furiously on August 04, 2016, 11:14:59 PM Make that 8/8 deadline buddy!
Title: Re: Happy Birthday! Post by: schild on August 05, 2016, 12:11:21 AM We did. Thank fucking god.
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