Unhappy Birthday

Re:Unhappy Birthday by johladam on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:03PM (#9601244)

I honestly can't tell if this is supposed to be a sarcastic comment on current state of copyright and copyright enforcement in the US, or if this is actually suggesting that people contact ASCAP and Time Warner about violations. I'm quite sure that it is actually talking about the difficulty of enforcing bans on popular songs that the general public assumes are in the public domain. Maybe my Aspergers is showing...

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Re:Unhappy Birthday by tnorthcutt on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:05PM (#9601251)

It is satire: http://mako.cc/fun/

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Re:Unhappy Birthday by dean on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:40PM (#9601380)

From that link:

"Unhappy Birthday is satirical project commenting on the fact that the song Happy Birthday To You is under an actively enforced copyright held by Time Warner. This site gives folks the tools and information they need to report unauthorized public performances of that work wherever they may occur.

If educating people and upholding the principle of copyright means risking a DoS of ASCAP's licensing enforcement infrastructure, it's a risk I'm willing to take. Please help spread the word!"

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Re:Unhappy Birthday by johladam on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:07PM (#9601257)

Thank you.

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Re:Unhappy Birthday by jMyles on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:49PM (#9601428)

After reading your comment, I asked myself, "Oh, whoa, is difficulty detecting sarcasm a characteristic of Aspergers?"

I did not know this (I know quite little about Aspergers, in fact). Can you tell me more?

A cursory google search brings a bunch of trollish-seeming forum posts and one decent looking article whose database server is down: http://faaas.org/research-materials/brochures-factsheets/asp...

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