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Comment Singing Happy Birthday in a restaurant too ! (Score 0) 178



Singing Happy Birthday in Public is Really Copyright Infringement - or is it ?

In recent years, some legal scholars have pointed out a number of potential problems with Warner/Chappell's claims to copyright ownership of "Happy Birthday to You," namely that there is little or no evidence that Patty Smith Hill actually wrote the lyrics to the song, that the first authorized publication of "Happy Birthday to You" bore an improper copyright notice (resulting in forfeiture of copyright protection), and that the copyright renewals filed in 1963 by Summy-Birchard covered only particular arrangements of the song and not the song itself. In June 2013, a film company working on a documentary about "Happy Birthday to You" filed a class action lawsuit which seeks to invalidate Warner/Chappell's claim to copyright ownership of the song and force the company to return millions of dollars they have collected over the years for wrongfully asserting copyright ownership Do you know what this would mean ? Every restaurant in the world would be singing "Happy Birthday" instead of some lame locally made up song. We would be hearing "Happy Birthday" at every TV show birthday party! That song will inundate society more than it already does. At present, many restaurants make up their own "Happy Birthday" songs to avoid copyright issues.

Sad Happy Birthday baby

How Can I Help Stop Infringement?

The best way to stop infringement is to tell the authorities and the owners so that they can follow up and arrange for a license and for royalties to be paid. Licenses for Happy Birthday are controlled by ASCAP. While monetary royalties will be negligible for a single restaurant performance, it is the principle that is at stake. If you have seen someone singing Happy Birthday in a restaurant, a park, or at a school, you should tell ASCAP so that they can arrange for a license. If you are an offender, you should apologize and offer to pay whatever is due — a nickel, a quarter, a dollar — whatever ASCAP demands. There is an overwhelming amount of copyright infringement of Happy Birthday. Let's right the balance and tell ASCAP about every one of these violations! There are many ways to get in contact with ASCAP:

Email licensing@ascap.com

Comment Video of the successful launch (Score 1) 50

Video of the successful launch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?... On July 3rd 2015, a Russian Soyuz rocket has successfully lifted the 60th Progress transport cargo spacecraft into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, launching it on a mission to resupply the International Space Station. This was the 60th Russian Progress resupply vehicle.

Comment Re:Looks like the second stage ruptured (Score 3, Informative) 316

NASA video of the launch failure
and SpaceX video(with telemetry)
More information about what projects were lost :
Test pollination stimulation for food crops in low gravity
Test new type of plastic developed to block radiation from the Sun
The Meteor investigation takes high-resolution video and images of the atmosphere and uses a software program to search for bright spots
Test a theory that fuel sprays change from partial to group combustion as flames spread across a cloud of droplets
The Telomeres investigation collects crew member blood samples to determine how telomeres and telomerase are affected by space travel
Veg-03- cultivates a type of cabbage, which is harvested in orbit with samples returned to Earth for testing analyzing the performance of Solar Liquid Power
Microsoft-holo lens for Project Sidekick
Test explosives in microgravity
8 dove satellites for planet labs
A spacesuit on its 19 flight and IDA docking module

Comment Airtel & Vodafone both inject Javascript in In (Score 2) 134

Not only Airtel, Vodafone also injects Javascript code into 3G users in India.
If you are browsing from such a connection, just "View Source" of ANY webpage that is not https
It shows a SCRIPT tag which includes the following files :

http://223.224.131.144/scripts/Anchor.js in an Airtel connection

Vodafone uses the similar http://1.2.3.4/bmi-int-js/bmi.js *Happens on all http but not https websites(like banking and secure websites with a lock symbol)
*As of now injects an empty iframe which seems to be a toolbar in making
*It slows down the site loading
*Uses your 3G data
*It messes up with the structure of the site
*Has access to clients browser and content
*Can add more code to monitor your web activity on all these pages.
*Works even on Incognito mode, Private browsing

Comment Looks like it does the following (Score 1) 1

  • Happens on all http but not https websites(like banking and secure websites with a lock symbol)
  • As of now injects an empty iframe which seems to be a toolbar in making
  • It slows down the site loading
  • It messes up with the structure of the site
  • Has access to clients browser and content
  • Can add more code to monitor your web activity on all these pages
  • Works even on Incognito mode, Private browsing

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