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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Sneer not, lest I remind you of Satchmo's Strutting With Some Bar-be-Que or Mack the Knife ....
Or Gogi Grant, or Tex Ritter's Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette.....
Or the Andrew Sisters....
All of which would have been in the public domain now, if the copyright law in the US hadn't been overwritten in 1978.....
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That was a real bono-head thing to do. Copyright laws should protect the originators of a work, not their heirs or corporations in perpetuity.