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I'm waiting for them to be sued for copyright infringement

• blatherard 10y ago
  The song was recently found to be in the public domain. See e.g. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/happy-birthday-is-public-domain-former-owner-warnerchapell-to-pay-14m/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/happy-birthday-is...
• JoeAltmaier 10y ago
  Not played in the US? So no issue
  • logicallee 10y ago
    copyright applies everywhere on Earth. So, still not an issue.
    • deleted 10y ago
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    • fshean 10y ago
      Actually no it doesn't. Copyright is a legal concept enforced by laws of various countries and different countries have different laws.
    • percept 10y ago
      "on Earth"
• TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
  Kind of hard to serve papers on a non-sentient object on another planet. (Not that that would stop lawyers if they were getting paid for it.)