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"Happy Birthday to You" ruled public
domain ••••
A federal court judge in Los Angeles has
declared the song Happy Birthday to You
belongs in the public domain, dealing a
blow to the music publishing company that
for decades has been collecting royalties
from the songs.
••••
US district judge George H King ruled on
Tuesday the copyright originally filed by
the Clayton F Summy Co in 1935 applied to
a specific arrangement of the song, not
the tune itself.
••••
King ruled that Summy never acquired the
rights to the song's lyrics, and the
defendants' claims to the contrary were
"implausible and unreasonable."
••••
"Because Summy Co never acquired the
rights to the Happy Birthday
lyrics,[the] defendants, as Summy
Co's purported successors-in-interest, do
not own a valid copyright in the Happy
Birthday lyrics," King wrote in a judgment
posted online.
••••
"Happy Birthday is finally free after 80
years," said Randall Newman, an attorney
for the plaintiffs. "Finally, the charade
is over. It's unbelievable."
••••
Up until now, Warner Chappell Music, a
division of the Warner Music Group, has
charged people for use of the song.
••••
Among the plaintiffs was film-maker
Jennifer Nelson, who was told she would
have to pay $1,500 USD in order to include
Happy Birthday in a documentary she was
making about its history.
••••
Warner Chappell Music has been enforcing
the copyright claim since it bought
Summy's successor, Birchtree Ltd, in 1988.
It reportedly paid $25m for the
company.
••••
Jay Morgenstern, then executive vice
president of the Warner Chappell Music
Group, told the New York Times a year
after the acquisition the song had proved
"a very good investment".
••••
Happy Birthday was written by sisters
Parry and Mildred Hill of Kentucky in
1883, and is often claimed to be the
world's most popular song.
••••
Without the court judgement, it would not
have been freely available in the public
domain in the US until 2030, and in the EU
until 31 December 2016.
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In
Memory of our good
friend By Josie and Troy
Cory
•
AMBROS SEELOS, ORCHESTRA LEADER,
Arranger, Saxophonist and Clarinettist
passed away August 3, 2015, in
Mühldorf, Germany, at the age of
80.
•••He
shared the stage with Ella Fitzgerald,
Louis Armstrong , Count Basie and Chubby
Checker. •••
•••
Speaking
with his wife Margit this morning, Ambros
died Monday evening after his health
deteriorated in the last few month. She
said, "he had a 'full life,' and a big
heart."
•••
Since
the fall during a performance on the dream
ship MS Deutschland, in 2011, when he
broke his arm multiple times, he was no
longer able to play an instrument which
for him meant the end of a long successful
career.
•••
"My
first recordings in Germany were arranged
and conducted by my good friend Ambros,"
and arranger Sylvester Levay," says Troy.
He has been a great help and I always had
the utmost respect for him." He was the
ultimate musician. We are truly saddened
by the news of his passing, but he will
never be forgotten and will always have a
place in our heart.
•••
He
leaves behind
his wife Margit and sons Dominique (from
his 1st marriage) Ambros und Max, who is
following in his father's footsteps. •
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"Kiss &
Tell" ••••
Tell me your
problems and I'll tell you mine, is the
old approach to get some people to open up
and extract information.
••••
Facebook is the world's most popular
social network. It is the company's 'Kiss
& Tell' mission to be the ultimate
placer for everybody to share just about
everything. Most people populate their
their feeds with only the most flattering
posts, like vacation and family photos,
promotional work and other not so humble
brags.
••••
As in a recent very personal post by the
Zuckerbergs, the social network encourages
others to share their struggles, to better
reflect reality, saying "in today's open
and connected world discussing these
issues doesn't distance us: it bring us
together. It creates understanding and
tolerance;" and also more motivated 'kiss
& tell' users.
••••
Sharing the most personal Facebook urges
users to share just about everything about
heir lives. There are however people that
do not hew that philosophy and the
tendency to expose their personal
challenges. That leaves open the question
still what is and is not appropriate to
share on social medias.
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Trading Hackers Arrested -
• Downloaded more than 150,000 press
releases. ••••
As some people wish
to connect on the Internet for positive
purposes there are those who embrace "Kiss
& Tell" criminality online.
••••
An international
hacking ring armed with tens of
thousands of corporate secrets pocketed
more than $100 million from
illicit trades, targeting a core
vulnerability of the financial system
in one of the digital age's most
sprawling insider-trading schemes
according to federal
investigators.•••
••••
The indictment
filed in US District Court accused foreign
based hacking network of downloading more
than 150,000 press releases for traders in
the U.S. and elsewhere. The traders paid
the hackers a flat rate or percentage of
the profit.
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Top Hollywood Studios face EU antitrust
probe ••••
The EU accused six top Hollywood
studios and the Sky TV pay channel of
breaching antitrust laws, in the latest
salvo in Brussels' efforts to break down
digital barriers in Europe.
••••
Brussels accuses Disney, NBCUniversal,
Paramount Pictures, Sony, Twentieth
Century Fox and Warner Bros, as well as
Britain and Ireland's Sky TV of using
movie licenses to block access to their
content in other European Union countries.
The charges are the newest in a series
made by the EU's new Competition
Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, fresh
from taking on Internet giant Google and
Russian energy behemoth Gazprom. •
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Green Light for AT&T's purchase of
DirecTV ••••
The Federal Communications
Commission to vote on proposed order to
approve AT&T's purchase of satellite
service Direc TV, a $49-billion deal that
would place the phone giant as the
nation's largest pay-television
operator.
••••.
••••AT&T,
which traces its origins to the invention
of the telephone more than 130 years ago
by Alexander Graham Bell, pursued DirecTV
as a way to remain competitive in the
digital age. The combination was also
motivated, in part, by a recognition that
consumers increasingly are getting news
and entertainment on
smartphones and other devices. •
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•
The
Special Olympics World Summer Games come
to LA, July 25-Aug.
2nd
- By: Gary Sunkin
••••
LOS ANGELES
-•The
largest sports and humanitarian event will
take place int the world capital for media
and entertainment, uniting the world
through sports in a celebration of the
abilities and accomplishments of people
intellectual disabilities and forming a
new global vision of
acceptance.
••••
Eunice Kennedy-Shriver, founder of Special
Olympics in 1968, was a pioneer in
the worldwide struggle for rights and
acceptance for people with intellectual
disabilities. •
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Countdown to the 2015 Special
Olympics
••••
The World Summer
Games to open on Saturday, July 25th, in
Los Angeles, California, will
feature competitions in aquatics,
gymnastics, track and field, basketball,
football (soccer) and many other
summer sports involving athletes with
intellectual disabilities from around the
world.
•
•
The 2015 Games will
be the 14th Special Olympics World Summer
Games.
••••
The most recent
World Summer Games were in Athens, Greece
in 2011 and the 2015 Special Olympics
World Summer Games could bring as many as
a half-million people to the greater Los
Angeles area. •
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Lowpower WiFi
Technology FUZHOU, CHINA
-- Rockchip, China's leading fabless
semiconductor company and mobile SoC
solution
provider, announced today that the new
Rockchip RKi6000 world's lowest power
Wi-Fi technology will be available for
smart home applications, including smart
plugs, intelligent access controls, smart
cameras, home appliances, wearables, and
more.
•••The
RKi6000's on-chip processor and memory
technology resolves this power issue,
reducing power consumption to make Wi-Fi
equal to Bluetooth LE, advancing the
adoption of IoT devices by breaking
Wi-Fi's power consumption
bottleneck. •
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Troy
Cory Meets Wikipedia's co-founder of
Wikipedia
at Digital
Hollywood, held at the Loewes
Hotel, Santa Monica.
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Anyone who knows Wikipedia will love Jimmy
Wales.
•
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"People do what they want," said
Wikipedia's founder at the
recent Digital Hollywood Spring keynote
address. "There is no master plan what
people are interested in." The question
is, how can we partner with people to have
a symbiotic realationship. The Wiki model
got good at traditional core demographics.
We see outside that geek fandom world.
•
• "We made it
ourselves!" is the core of the community
pride and any editing war can be solved
through conversation. Cool off a bit and
restart the
dialogue!FOR
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