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This is an interesting choice. I feel like normally this sort of thing would manifest as a particular sequence of beeps, but those are hard to notice and easy t
by egypturnash 5y ago
This is an interesting choice. I feel like normally this sort of thing would manifest as a particular sequence of beeps, but those are hard to notice and easy to write off; "my computer plays Für Elise or It's A Small World on the beeper for no obvious reason" is very specific and much easier to hunt for.
- gumby 5y agoBut surely subjecting innocent people to "It's a Small World" without their permission is a felony in some jurisdictions, or should be.
- NateEag 5y agoIt's probably a copyright violation, in which case you can expect the Disney cartel to pursue it more aggressively than the US government pursues felony charges.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoCan a melody be copyrighted? I believe so, but changing just one note is enough to avoid it (see: Queen's Under Pressure vs Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby; the latter has one extra bass note)
- NateEag 5y agoYup: https://www.copyrightuser.org/create/creative-process/going-for-a-song-track-1/ https://www.copyrightuser.org/create/creative-process/going-... It's often hard to win melodic copyright violation suits, because IIRC you have to show intent to copy, not just they the melodies are similar.
- theWreckluse 5y agoYou think the motherboard makers wouldn’t have licensed it?
- timdiggerm 5y agoYou think they would have?
- gumby 5y agoI don’t believe copyright violation is a felony, at least of one song; I was referring to the choice of melody.
- NateEag 5y agoYup, definitely not a felony. But I stand by my claim that Disney pursues copyright lawsuits harder than the government prosecutes some felonies.
- rolandog 5y agoIt might've been a debugging feature that accidentally got shipped first with a copyrighted version, but then corrected to use some tune in the public domain.
- can16358p 5y agoThey could update it via the firmware to, say, Never Gonna Give You Up.