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How about a country where Happy Birthday is under copyright (disputed or not), and public performance is illegal.
Edit: The countries where this song is under copyright is a bit muddled... Last edited by murg; 05-09-2015 at 08:33 PM. |
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I highly doubt that it says: Copyright Warner/Chappel Music. Non-commercial use is acceptable, all other rights reserved. Corporate copyright attorneys just don't think that way. If they don't specifically say so, then they want you to get permission for every instance of non-commercial use. You have been claiming that public performances are illegal. Illegal implies a crime, a violation of a criminal statute (and all of the copyright statues have the possibility of jail/prison time associated with them). There is no 'non-commercial' use clause in the laws. No 'implied acceptable use' clause. As far as the law is concerned (in the appropriate countries), singing Happy Birthday is illegal. More: One version on the internet (image of sheet music) says: All Rights Reserved including Public Performance for Profit. This means that public performance not for profit is also reserved. Last edited by murg; 05-09-2015 at 08:32 PM. |
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05-09-2015, 08:43 PM | #290 |
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Copyright, should it be proven to exist and if it is determined to have subsisted at the time of the US-Australian FTA (early 2005 from memory), expires in Australia (similarly to the EU) upon the completion of the year 2016.
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The work entered the Australian public domain on 1st Jan 1997, 50 years after the death of the last author in 1946. When Australia changed from a life+50 to a life+70 copyright term in 2004, it had no impact on works that were already in the public domain at that time.
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Hang on a minute. You said that you actually saw this supposed illegal activity. What I'm asking you is what country you were in when you saw it. That's not a difficult question to answer, is it?
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Of relevance to this somewhat pedantic discussion, in Australia (at least), copyright right infringement is a civil action and not the sort of thing the police are going to stop you at the street corner for.
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The various exaggerated claims of illegal performances are largely irrelevant if the copyright holder never gets to know of them, or decides to take no action (which I can imagine is likely to be the case if any author heard about their work being read aloud in a library). As I understand it, there can be issues about protecting your intellectual rights if it is proven you have not taken steps to protect them - but anyone using this defence would, I presume, have to prove that you knew about the other infringements. Last edited by gmw; 05-10-2015 at 02:41 AM. |
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This really only applies to trademarks. Not defending a trademark can result in the term becoming a generic word and no longer trademarked. E.g. escalator or linoleum.
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05-11-2015, 04:31 AM | #295 |
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More importantly, as public performances of copyrighted materials are illegal, when do these SWAT teams descend on karaoke bars?
I mean, if they want the public on their side, then this is surely the right place to start |
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Such performances are almost certainly authorised through licensing.
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If you go into pretty much any pub in the UK you'll see a sign up over the door or the bar which says something like "These premises are licensed for the performance of music". |
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Happy Birthday is still under copyright until 2030 in the US. It shouldn't be but the entire realm of IP law is a mess in the US and broken.
Personally I break the DRM on my books and since I don't distribute the chance of anyone suing me is infinitesimal. No copyright owner wants to be the one to establish case law where stripping DRM is permitted. And suing the purchaser of an ebook for stripping the DRM so as to move off of dying platforms is too risky for the copyright owner. |
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