Thursday, May 08, 2008

@Lucas: Beware PD

While it seems "Happy Birthday" may not be copyright after all, sadly, it seems even PD derivations ain't what it used to be

2 comments:

Lucas Gonze said...

So how does a PD derivation come to be based on a non-PD song? I guess this would happen when there was a longer duration for the source than the derived song.

spinmeister said...

and copyright is highly jurisdictional (typically by country) , which only adds to the mess in the age of internet publishing.