YaY! You can all sing me Happy Birthday this weekend for FREE!

Banned 9 years ago

Well that's a relief that I won't be charged for illegally singing Happy Birthday to friends and family for all these years.

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discrat

9 years ago

As much as I think the Lawsuit is silly it is the proper Protocol.

Songs are written and each song has a Composer and Creator. It's like anything if you get it copyrighted/ Trademarked etc..etc.. then there are channels you have to go thru to make something like this Public Domain.

Warner/Chapell had every right to collect. Absolutely NO question.

I'm just glad it is Public Domain now

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irawr

Banned 9 years ago

Originally Posted by discrat

As much as I think the Lawsuit is silly it is the proper Protocol.

Songs are written and each song has a Composer and Creator. It's like anything if you get it copyrighted/ Trademarked etc..etc.. then there are channels you have to go thru to make something like this Public Domain.

Warner/Chapell had every right to collect. Absolutely NO question.

I'm just glad it is Public Domain now

Agreed, same. As a marketer I don't really want my copyrights and trademark rights being diluted by the courts. Granted, the owners of the copywrite were being a bit aggressive. Which of course, it was was bogus anyways.

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MissTerraK 9 years ago

Jill,

I was going to save this until tomorrow, but with Suzanne and Dennis singing you Happy Birthday today, I'll give it to you now.

Happy Birthday!

If you look at the silver lining of having a birthday on Valentine's Day, if you don't have a valentine, you still have an awesome reason to celebrate and party.

Terra
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Princess Balestra

9 years ago

Woo hoo!

Gonna be rootin' forya.

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yukon

Banned 9 years ago

Who owns the rights for birthday suits?

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Jill Carpenter 9 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Who owns the rights for birthday suits?

I don't know, but I did give mine a cleaning today.
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- MissTerraK 9 years ago
  
  Jill,
  Either towel dry it, or air dry it, but please don't throw it in the dryer!!!
  
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seasoned

9 years ago

I always said that was bogus. HECK, EVEN a copyright by the originators could be called into question, but that was LONG ago.

And leaving it to the public, with no repercussions, claim of copyright, or even complaint, DOES make it public domain! HELL, one company bought one PROPRIETARY product, modified a PUBLIC DOMAIN(actually copyleft, but we will get to that in a second), and then claimed that copying their meager code was ILLEGAL, due to copyright!

So WHAT is copyleft? Well, there is always the fear that some IDIOT will take a public domain work tweak it, and copyright it. So someone copyrights the work and throws it into the public domain so such a tweak under such circumstances causes an infringement they can prosecute.

What is Copyleft? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

And with the "happy birthday" tune, never mind all the transfers and taking advantage of all the changes in the law, the basic music was apparently NOT written by the "authors", and the words are simplistic at best, and often changed.

HECK, look at the Men at work "down under". They had FAR more claim! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Under_(song) And look what happened:

Sections of the flute part of the recording of the song were found to be based on the children's song "Kookaburra", written in 1932 by Marion Sinclair. Sinclair died in 1988[6] and the rights to the Kookaburra song were deemed to have been transferred to publisher Larrikin Music on 21 March 1990.[18] In the United States, the rights are administered by Music Sales Corporation in New York City.

And MAN, look at THIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra_(song)

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sbucciarel

Banned 9 years ago

So ... it's the weekend.

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday Dear Jill
Happy Birthday to you

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Dennis Gaskill

9 years ago

Suzanne beat me to it, but I sing more off-key than she does, so here you go...

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday Dear Jill
Happy Birthday to you

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Princess Balestra

9 years ago

Prolly gonna be AWOL tomorrow, so I echo the sentiments here.

A Valentine's birthday suggests cool stuff is ever imminent.

Go romp & be delicious.

I will endeavor to pluck an imaginary harp in your honor.

Happy Birthday.

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seasoned

9 years ago

BTW I forgot to post the video, etc:

Men At Work - Down Under - YouTube

I noticed that riff the FIRST second I heard it *****LONG***** ago. I sang it DECADES earlier in a music class. It was one of the songs in a book used in schools in the US. It is about an AUSTRALIAN bird, and is apparently from there.

You know, a book store once, called Amazon books, once sued a little company called Amazon.com for violating their trademark. Oh SURE, the suit was kind of baseless, I mean "AMAZON"? COME ON! There is a RESTAURANT in burlington called amazon! STILL, it WAS under a similar law. amazon books was told their case was brought too late.

Oh well.

Steve

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Jill Carpenter 9 years ago

Scrambling today to get a big hunk of work done so I can take the day off tomorrow.

I thank you all for the early wishes! It will help remind me why I'm plugging through the pile today.

Planning out my eggs benedict and bloodies or poinsettas for breakfast already.

Back to work...
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Key Seek

9 years ago

Happy Birthday, Valentines Day, or whatever day you want to call it, Jill.

You are a sweetie!

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tagiscom 9 years ago

Yes, pretty dumb all right!

What are they going to do, charge the whole planet with using this illegally?

Same as imprisoning Aussies for illegal downloads, they would have to put up "Escape From New York" type fencing around a state, and throw the 30% or about 7 million of Australians in there!

Or would be guaranteed to lose, next time they would need to vote!
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Khemosabi

9 years ago

Happy Birthday Jill!!

Go have some fun today, after your breakfast!!

Don't forget, you are going to take the day OFF!

~ Theresa

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Jill Carpenter

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Khemosabi

Don't forget, you are going to take the day OFF!

~ Theresa

I'm going to try to take the day off.

There is work available for me to do today (if I want to do it) and I will have to take another day later this week where I know it'll be impossible for me to do any work so I'm debating spending maybe just a couple of hours getting some work in. It's all deadline related. I have projects lined up through the end of April.

Then after April there is work but the $ is uncertain. It is family related and something I offered myself up for to help out so I kinda gotta treat about 3 months of my summer as donated time. The experience of what I'm doing could be turned into money at a later date if I document what I'm doing properly.

For the moment I'm finishing my morning coffee and then off to the store to get some crabcakes. Gonna make me some crab cake benedict! Yummmmmmmm.

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MissTerraK

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Jill Carpenter

I'm going to try to take the day off.

There is work available for me to do today (if I want to do it) and I will have to take another day later this week where I know it'll be impossible for me to do any work so I'm debating spending maybe just a couple of hours getting some work in. It's all deadline related. I have projects lined up through the end of April.

Then after April there is work but the $ is uncertain. It is family related and something I offered myself up for to help out so I kinda gotta treat about 3 months of my summer as donated time. The experience of what I'm doing could be turned into money at a later date if I document what I'm doing properly.

For the moment I'm finishing my morning coffee and then off to the store to get some crabcakes. Gonna make me some crab cake benedict! Yummmmmmmm.

As for the coffee, I'm on my 4th cup, lol!

Congrats on the work! I myself have enough loyal clients online and off that bring me steady work that I'm actually seriously considering retiring my sites completely.

Hey, it's your birthday! If you do work, don't work all day and for heaven's sake treat yourself to something special too.

Terra

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Kay King

9 years ago

Happy beeday Jill - crab benedict sounds soooo good.

Work a little - eat and play a lot....If you work a little then you OWE yourself an afternoon off later in the week.

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Jill Carpenter

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

Happy beeday Jill - crab benedict sounds soooo good.

Work a little - eat and play a lot....If you work a little then you OWE yourself an afternoon off later in the week.

I found some maryland crabcakes at the store this morning. Perfectly poached the eggs, cheated a bit with the concord hollandaise sauce. Found a couple of hash brown patties to go with it all.

I could have gone out, but I am such a damn good cook, lol, it would have been disappointing.

Months back when talking to my ex about leaving him he said, "aren't you going to miss cooking for me?" ROFL - and he was so serious...

So brunch was just perfect. Not to mention I can really enjoy the poinsettas (champagne on ice with a splash of cran) and not worry about driving home as I'm already here.

It's a sunny warm day. Complete opposite from where I was last year.

Just really feeling relaxed and at peace.

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Kay King 9 years ago

I can identify - cooking is my only real domestic talent. I often think about going out and end up cooking for myself instead...tastes better.

We are blizzarding here at the moment. Supposedly we were to have an hour or two of light flurries. We're now on our 4th hours of heavy snow. I was out earlier but home before snow started (planned it that way).

My son was out and about but made it home OK in his Jeep. However, he just left again as my daughter-in-law is off the road just 2-3 miles from the house. She's driving a 4 wheel drive SUV but these country roads can be tricky.

Jeep has a winch so hopefully everyone will be home safe and sound before too long.

Just really feeling relaxed and at peace.

THAT's the kind of day you deserve to have for a birthday!
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- Jill Carpenter 9 years ago
  
  Sorry bout the snow Kay!
  
  Maybe this special performance of the Happy Birthday song will warm you up:
  
  Corgis Singing Happy Birthday - YouTube
  
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  Kay King 9 years ago
  
  Hilarious!
  
  Family just made it home safe - so can enjoy the snow now.
  
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  Jill Carpenter 9 years ago
  
  I got that on my facebook wall.
  
  I'm wondering if that is the same dog on a greenscreen and altered.
  
  But it is funny!
  
  (do they owe money for that?)
  
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  Cali16 9 years ago
  
  Happy Birthday, Jill!!!!!
  
  Sounds like you're off to a great start with an amazing brunch and sunshine!
  
  I hope you can just relax and enjoy the rest of your day!!!
  
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bizgrower

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Jill Carpenter

I could have gone out, but I am such a damn good cook, lol, it would have been disappointing.

Months back when talking to my ex about leaving him he said, "aren't you going to miss cooking for me?" ROFL - and he was so serious...

Sorry you had a male like that, but good you have peace now.

Tompall Glaser PUT ANOTHER LOG ON THE FIRE Lyrics...

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positivenegative 9 years ago

Happy birthday Jill. Have a good one. I guess everyone is feeling a bit fruity today, what with Valentine's and all that.
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- Frank Donovan 9 years ago
  
  Happy Birthday, Jill!
  
  And if you can still read this, you haven't had enough poinsettas yet.
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bizgrower

9 years ago

You don't want me singing, so Happy Birthday!!

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