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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.
--- Rosser's trick: "For every proof of me, there is a shorter
proof of my negation". [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 01:17 PM EDT |
Should be an interesting case. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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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