I'm beginning to think I should re-name this blog "VolokhWatch."
Guest-blogger Robert Brauneis has an interesting post about the copyright status of the words-and-melody to "Happy Birthday To You," currently "owned" by Warner Music Group.
The post discusses the possibility that copyright protection for this song may extend to the year 2030. Yuck! So I've got to endure 22 more years of restaurants making up their own idiotic birthday songs to keep from paying fees to WMG?
I wonder if anyone's copyrighted, "Happy birthday to you. You live in a zoo. You look like a monkey, and you smell like one too."
Maybe I can get some cash out of that.
Jury in First Boeing Max 8 Crash Trial Returns $24.5M Over Ethiopian Air
Passenger's Death
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A federal jury in Chicago awarded the damages to Shikha Garg, who died in
the 2019 crash of Ethiopian Air Flight 302, the second of two disasters
involving...
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