Pop songs expressed with graphs

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:35:01 GMT

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Tags: humor, music, not bacon

The Elephant Song: for the kids

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:39:56 GMT

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Tags: kids, music, eric herman, video

Regina Spektor - Samson

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:07:34 GMT

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Tags: regina spektor, samson, music

Pirates of the Health Care-Ibbean

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:44:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Arrr! Go ahead and die! Music by the Austin Lounge Lizards

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Who owns the Happy Birthday song?

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:17:44 GMT

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Claim: The song "Happy Birthday to You" is protected by copyright.

Status: True.

The Chicago-based music publisher Clayton F. Summy Company, working with Jessica Hill, published and copyrighted "Happy Birthday" in 1935. Under the laws in effect at the time, the Hills' copyright would have expired after one 28-year term and a renewal of similar length, falling into public domain by 1991. However, the Copyright Act of 1976 extended the term of copyright protection to 75 years from date of publication, and the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 added another 20 years, so under current law the copyright protection of "Happy Birthday" will remain intact until at least 2030.

Who does own the publishing rights to "Happy Birthday to You"? They were acquired by a New York accountant named John F. Sengstack when he bought the Clayton F. Summy Company in the 1930s; Sengstack eventually relocated the company to New Jersey and renamed it Birch Tree Ltd. in the 1970s. Warner Chappell (a Warner Communications division), the largest music publisher in the world, purchased Birch Tree Ltd. in late 1998 for a reported sale price of $25 million; the company then became Summy-Birchard Music, now a part of the giant AOL Time Warner media conglomerate. According to David Sengstack, president of Summy-Birchard, "Happy Birthday to You" brings in about $2 million in royalties annually, with the proceeds split between Summy-Birchard and the Hill Foundation. (Both Hill sisters died unmarried and childless, so the Hill Foundation's share of the royalties have presumably been going to charity or to nephew Archibald Hill ever since Patty Hill passed away in 1946.)

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Pop songs expressed with graphs

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