It’s one of the best-known songs in the world and it’s the copyright preserve of music publishers Warner Chappell. But possibly not for much longer.
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Music
It’s time to end the Happy Birthday song’s copyright protection
Tech
The Pirate Bay, EZTV, and other torrent websites taken down in police raid in Sweden
A number of popular BitTorrent websites have been taken down after Swedish police raided a data centre near Stockholm.
Tech
US Copyright Office rules that ‘monkey selfie’ in public domain after Wikipedia row
The US Copyright Office has clarified its position about photographs taken by animals after a row between Wikipedia and a photographer over a ‘monkey selfie’.
Tech
Police to replace ads on piracy websites with copyright warnings
British visitors to copyright-infringing websites will start to see warnings from the police in the place of banner adverts for Usenet and VPNs, in the latest phase of Operation Creative.
Oddities
Boy named Wayne Rooney not allowed personalised Easter egg over ‘copyright’
A Rochdale woman was told by a chocolate shop that she could not have an Easter egg personalised for her son ‘Wayne Rooney’ because of ‘copyright issues’.