“Warner/Chappell has built a licensing empire based on ‘Happy Birthday,’ which in 1996 was pulling in more than $2 million per year. [..] An important line of text published underneath the song’s lyrics was ‘blurred almost beyond legibility’ in the copy that Warner/Chappell handed over in discovery. Plaintiffs’ lawyers note that it’s ‘the only line of the entire PDF that is blurred in that manner.’ Plaintiffs acquired their own copies of the songbook, including a first edition published in 1916, which didn’t have the song, and versions published 1922 and later, which include it without a copyright notice.”
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Related posts:
Why Obamacare Will Result in a Decline in Cash Wages
Activists converge on Rahm Emanuel’s home for Fourth of July protest
Antigua set to bypass US copyright law with WTO green-lit media, software sales website
Need a New Knee? This Lithuanian Clinic Will Give You One for Bitcoin
Super Bowl Mic Hijack Proves Government Cannot Protect You
James Corbett: The Bitcoin Psyop
Bank of Greece Breaks Silence on Bitcoin
Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database
Government Freezes EBT Funds, Orders States to Withhold Food Stamps
Luzi Stamm: champion of a new Swiss gold initiative
The War on Money Laundering Is Causing the Wrong Kind of Casualties
Snapchat admits to sharing photos with the cops
Ninth-Largest Newspaper In The US Is Trying Out A Bitcoin Paywall
California’s first mobile Amber Alert shocks strangers
Obama Top Adviser Robert Gibbs Justifies Murder of 16 Year Old