Hapi Berth Dey
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Luke Barats of Barats and Bereta found a way to legally perform the celebratory anthem Happy Birthday to You, which is, in case you didn't know, a registered trademark.
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So, someone creates something that becomes extremely popular to that point that it becomes ingrained in popular culture and therefore they lose any right to benefit from their creation?
1893, I repeat: 1893
Also, 75 years after the author's death rather than, say, 25 years after it was created.
One of the few industries that both expects lifelong pay for a day's work, and depends on curtailing freedom of speech (in that it stops people from singing songs and passing around collections of words) for its success.
Abolish copyright for non-commercial copying, let the lazy artists starve and the hardworking ones make a living.