this lawsuit revolved around the words "happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear [NAME], happy birthday to you"
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My fav thing about this is that the most reasonable interpretation of history is that authors thought it would be dumb to © these lyrics
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"It's just 'Happy birthday to you' over and over again, why should we copyright that?"
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@sarahjeong CAN you even copyright that? Is there a case on a short phrase but, you know, repeated a few times? -
@RLHeppner There are a bunch of cases on short phrases, actually, including one nice piece of dicta about "weasels ripped my flesh"
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@sarahjeong how can it be orphaned if it didn't have copyright protection in the first place? wasn't this before born-copyrighted? -
@dangillmor whether the 1922 publication divested copyright from the work is a contested question of fact -
@sarahjeong so it *may* be orphaned, or it *may* be public domain? -
@dangillmor We can't say for sure that there isn't a copyright interest attached to it, so yes, that's one way of saying it -
@sarahjeong@dangillmor Schroedinger's PRO
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@sarahjeong this is an excellent explainer of a complicated issue. Thanks for writing it!Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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@sarahjeong I still don't understand this. Isn't every text published before 1923 in the public domain? -
@sarahjeong Got it, nvm
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@sarahjeong Can we really say it definitively *isn’t* in the public domain any more than we can say it definitively *is*?Merci. Twitter en tiendra compte pour améliorer votre fil. SupprimerSupprimer
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