Recent Copyright News

Hooray!

Happy Birthday - in Public Domain at last
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Yeah, I've read this in the news... Warner_Music_Group is now longer allowed to cash up the fees of about 2 Million bucks a year for a song that was composed in a Kindergarden in 1893...
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> See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#2013_lawsuit
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Always the very same story... >B^{
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The real artist/composer/songwriter won't get any cent for it. He's got the fame, that's much enough for her/him.
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Every financial profit out of musical work is supposed to be private property only for smart american-type businessmen and/or american-type-lawyers (who invented, as everybody should know, the tone, the voice, the song, the string, all kind of instruments, all sound-studio- and record-techniques, production of LP, CD, *.WAV, *.MP3 - and, of course, the note-staff, the clefs, the notes, the accidentals, notepaper and noteprinting, too!)
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But, as this fountain and source of moneymaking without any effort has now dried out - does anybody know about the ©opywrong or ®egistered Tradequark with "For he's a jolly good fellow?" Hey, 'ye Guys and Lawyers from Warner Music Group, don't 'ye notice the smell of money from that?
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FarrierPete