[ProgSoc] Judge rules copyright change for Happy Birthday to You

Roland Turner roland at rolandturner.com
Thu Sep 24 11:20:07 AEST 2015


(wonders how long before the suits to recover the fraudulent gains begin)

- Roland



On 09/23/2015 08:17 PM, Leefe wrote:
> HI,
> Not really an IT thing, but an interesting copyright ruling.
>
> A US Federal court judge has ruled that Warner/Chappell does not and did not own the copyright to the words to the Happy Birthday To You song. So can no longer collect royalties  from it appearing in movies and the like. There does that $2 million a year.
>
> US judge rules copyright for 'Happy Birthday’ invalid (SBS, 23 September 2015)
> http://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2015/09/23/us-judge-rules-copyright-happy-birthday-invalid
>
> The Happy Birthday song copyright scam ends (EFA, 23 September 2015)
> https://www.efa.org.au/2015/09/23/happy-birthday-copyright/
>
> “Happy Birthday” Enters Public Domain, Judge Rules Copyright Invalid (Torrent Freak, 23 September 2015)
> https://torrentfreak.com/happy-birthday-enters-public-domain-judge-rules-copyright-invalid-150923/
>
> Federal Judge Rules ‘Happy Birthday’ Song Is in the Public Domain (Time, 22 September 2015)
> http://time.com/4045736/happy-birthday-copyright-music-royalties-lyrics/
>
>
> Leefe
> http://www.progsoc.org/~3trk/
>
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