{"id":5174,"date":"2003-10-20T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2003-10-20T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T22:13:07","slug":"hippo_birdies_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/20\/hippo_birdies_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Hippo Birdies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Third Circuit Court has confirmed <\/a>(in a footnote on another case) that AOL<\/s> Time Warner owns the rights to “Happy Birthday” (the song, not the phrase), and will until 2030 — assuming Congress doesn’t extend everyone’s copyright yet again, thus ringing in the bucks everytime it’s played in public.<\/p>\n

Hence, one might note, the flurry of generally wretched HB tunes that different restaurants make up for their patrons. What hath copyright wrought?<\/p>\n

(via Volokh<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Third Circuit Court has confirmed (in a footnote on another case) that AOL Time Warner owns the rights to “Happy Birthday” (the song, not the phrase), and will until…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3670,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/09\/free_mickey.html","url_meta":{"origin":5174,"position":0},"title":"Free Mickey!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Oct-02 1:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am a believer in free enterprise. 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