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[bill cobbett]

This is a curious story, make what you will of it on a Friday night.

The National Anthem of Greece is in copyright to Sony and every time it is played, said company should get paid a royalty.

Further, it is illegal to play it without paying the royalty.

Presumably the same applies to the CY National Anthem.

http://hellasfrappe.blogspot.gr/2013/11 ... nthem.html

[GreekIslandGirl]

Everybody wants it!


I remember hearing claims that "Happy Birthday To You" is now under copyright even though the original sources are dead/unknown and that (for example) restaurants had to pay royalties each time customers sang the song when a cake is brought out for a celebration.

I've just checked and I think this is part of a newly emerging field termed Copyfraud.

Copyfraud is a form of copyright misuse. The term was coined by Jason Mazzone, a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, to describe situations where individuals and institutions illegally claim copyright ownership of content in the public domain and other forms of overreaching by publishers and others who claim rights that the law does not give them; these actions carry little or no oversight by authorities or legal consequences. Mazzone pointed out ways in which copyright overreaching interferes with the public's legitimate use and reproduction of works, discourages innovation and free speech, and creates costs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud

Sony can perhaps claim royalties if someone plays their own particular recording of "Hymn to Liberty", but that's all. The music and lyrics belong to the creators and their descendants (if they renew). But even then, Sony would not have paid the writers copyright once it's in the public domain, so why should anyone pay them?

As the article implies, they prey on the unwary.

Naughty, naughty Sony! Wasn't this the company that was nasty to George Michael?

[CBBB]

Naughty, naughty Sony! Wasn't this the company that was nasty to George Michael?

In a Californian public toilet?

[GreekIslandGirl]

Naughty, naughty Sony! Wasn't this the company that was nasty to George Michael?

In a Californian public toilet?

Are Sony homosexuals?

[Paphitis]

Everybody wants it!


I remember hearing claims that "Happy Birthday To You" is now under copyright even though the original sources are dead/unknown and that (for example) restaurants had to pay royalties each time customers sang the song when a cake is brought out for a celebration.

I've just checked and I think this is part of a newly emerging field termed Copyfraud.

Copyfraud is a form of copyright misuse. The term was coined by Jason Mazzone, a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, to describe situations where individuals and institutions illegally claim copyright ownership of content in the public domain and other forms of overreaching by publishers and others who claim rights that the law does not give them; these actions carry little or no oversight by authorities or legal consequences. Mazzone pointed out ways in which copyright overreaching interferes with the public's legitimate use and reproduction of works, discourages innovation and free speech, and creates costs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud

Sony can perhaps claim royalties if someone plays their own particular recording of "Hymn to Liberty", but that's all. The music and lyrics belong to the creators and their descendants (if they renew). But even then, Sony would not have paid the writers copyright once it's in the public domain, so why should anyone pay them?

As the article implies, they prey on the unwary.

Naughty, naughty Sony! Wasn't this the company that was nasty to George Michael?

It's obviously a very shallow beat up by Hellas frappe!

If Sony placed a You Tube of the Greek National Anthem with its own images, then they probably have rights over that, but they do not have rights over the Anthem.

[bill cobbett]

No... no... enough excuses. You CYs are all under arrest for your thieving from Sony Corp.

Now, you'll all have to proceed quietly to Nicosia Central Prison for questioning.

... except "g"IG who can stay where she is, in the Tyrilliria Home for the Mentally Not Well.

[GreekIslandGirl]

No... no... enough excuses. You CYs are all under arrest for your thieving from Sony Corp.

Now, you'll all have to proceed quietly to Nicosia Central Prison for questioning.

... except "g"IG who can stay where she is, in the Tyrilliria Home for the Mentally Not Well.

Did somebody say ... Tyllirέ-βερεβε-ναν ά-βαραβα-στρον τζια ε-βερε-ν μιτσίν μες τους-βουρουβου-ς εφτά-βαραβα πλανή-βιριβι-τες
για-βαρα-λουρου-βουρου-δα μου ....




...της βιριβι-ς πελλής... ... πελλής! OPA!

[Paphitis]

Did somebody say ... Tyllirέ-βερεβε-ναν ά-βαραβα-στρον τζια ε-βερε-ν μιτσίν μες τους-βουρουβου-ς εφτά-βαραβα πλανή-βιριβι-τες
για-βαρα-λουρου-βουρου-δα μου ....

...της βιριβι-ς πελλής... ... πελλής! OPA!

Hah!

Translation please....

[GreekIslandGirl]

... except "g"IG who can stay where she is, in the Tyrilliria Home for the Mentally Not Well.

Oh my oh my ... this is so good ... only you, sort-of-englishman, can fully appreciate ...

[Paphitis]

No... no... enough excuses. You CYs are all under arrest for your thieving from Sony Corp.

Now, you'll all have to proceed quietly to Nicosia Central Prison for questioning.

... except "g"IG who can stay where she is, in the Tyrilliria Home for the Mentally Not Well.

Can I have a live feed to the cricket in my cell please?

All CF visitors can wait in the holding area until the game is finished. Ta!