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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby Project Willow » Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:44 pm

Happy birthday Eflis!
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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby elfismiles » Fri Jun 21, 2013 4:19 pm

Project Willow » 13 Jun 2013 01:44 wrote:Happy birthday Eflis!


Thanks PW! :partyhat
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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby Project Willow » Sat Jul 13, 2013 3:11 pm

Happy birthday Jeff!

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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby elfismiles » Sat Jul 13, 2013 5:47 pm

Happy Birthday!!!

Those are the most beautiful cupcakes I've ever seen.
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Postby Perelandra » Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:35 pm

Happy birthday to Iamwhomiam.

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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.” - William Faulkner
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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby Project Willow » Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:01 pm

^ Happy B-day Iam!

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Yeah, it's a cake. I can't believe what folks are accomplishing with cake and icing these days.
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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby conniption » Tue Jan 07, 2014 8:26 am

:partyhat Guess who will be turning 60 tomorrow (8th).

That's right...ME.

Spoiler:ME = Username

Much Love!

Respect your elders.


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ON EDIT: Thought I would edit-in some friends to party with while the editing is good... :gringhost:

Have always loved this guy. >>>> :zoidberg:

Of course, it's also Elvis' B-day, but he's dead...supposedly.

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At the end of Love Me Tender, you are serenaded by ghost Elvis. This is supposed to be comforting to distraught audience members.
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This is the only film in which Elvis dies on screen. Apparently, his mother and fans couldn’t handle this, so Elvis promised to never die on screen again.


Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender (End Scene)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AbpsJLIEYk

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Word has it, it's also the birthday of the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Fancy that.

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Postby conniption » Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:52 am

Perelandra » Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:46 am wrote:Happy birthdays to Jeff and Mac. :partyhat


Bumpity-bump... and a happy birthday, too.

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On Edit:
Maybe we don't throw birthday parties around here after all. :shrug:

No worries. :snoopdance: :zoidberg:

You can borrow a couple of my friends.
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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby Project Willow » Mon Dec 15, 2014 8:43 pm

Happy birthday Twyla!

And a belated Happy Birthday to Perelandra! You made it!

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Postby Perelandra » Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:30 pm

Thanks PW, and yay for Twyla and 82!

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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby conniption » Fri Jan 08, 2016 5:32 am

Judge Frees 'Happy Birthday' Song from Copyright Claims

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lMj2uie5S0
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Published on Sep 23, 2015



You can now sing Happy Birthday copyright free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUaqGLIx2k
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Published on Oct 22, 2015


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IP Watchdog

‘Happy Birthday To You’ Now In the Public Domain (Sort of)


By Renee C. Quinn & Brian Focarino
October 28, 2015


For as long as I can remember, whenever we celebrated a birthday, we inevitably would gather around the birthday boy or girl and sing “Happy Birthday To You.” And although I may not know you personally, I can pretty much bet that you know exactly which Happy Birthday song I am referring to. Yes, there have been different variations to the song over the years, such as, “You smell like a Monkey, and you look like one too!” Where did that come from anyway? No Clue! But it is, after all, the most recognized song in the English language according to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records.

Many years ago, Gene and I were having dinner at a local family-owned restaurant when the restaurant staff came through the restaurant clapping and singing the Happy Birthday song. Gene looked at me and said, “That’s surprising. Do you know why you almost never hear restaurant staff singing the Happy Birthday song? Because it’s protected by copyright.” What? We have been singing the Happy Birthday song our entire lives. It is just a song somebody made up and has passed on and on and on right? Wrong!

This weekend, I was having dinner at the Texas Roadhouse with a friend of ours who happens to also be an attorney and law professor. The restaurant staff came through preparing to celebrate the birthday of a patron with their own special chant and ride on saddle. This was my opportunity to impress my friend with my knowledge. So I, all proud of my non-attorney self, proceeded to tell him that I knew why restaurants did not sing the Happy Birthday Song, “Because it’s protected by copyright!!” To which he simply replied, “Not any more!” Again, What? He then proceeded to tell me how the case has recently been brought to court with new evidence that the case had been overturned as there was new evidence brought to light that the song belonged in the public domain. So I just had to write about this and well, being the non-attorney that I am, I reached out to Brian Focarino, one of my favorite copyright and trademark guest contributors, to help me in writing the remainder of this piece.

Origin of the Happy Birthday Tune

Some believed that Russian Born, Jewish-American writer & composer Irving Berlin, composed the song in the early 1900s. Berlin is a prolific song writer who is also know for many other popular songs that are still sung to this day, such as “White Christmas”, “There’s No Business Like Show Business”, and “God Bless America” to name just a few.

Out of curiosity, I searched Google for “who wrote happy birthday to you” and came up with a long list of articles on the topic, including a Wikipedia page specifically written on Happy Birthday To You. Deeper digging reveals that Patty Hill, a pioneer of early-education developmental education and kindergarten principal from Louisville KY, and her sister, Mildred, a pianist and composer, initially created the song in 1893. The sisters created simple songs that were easy to teach to young children to help engage them in the activities and schedule of kindergarten. The Clayton F. Summy Company published a collection of these songs in 1893.

The published work contained a song called “Good Morning to All,” which utilized the now-familiar melody, but did not contain the lyrics of the now-famous Happy Birthday song. Instead, “Good Morning to All” was meant to be sung by both the teacher and kindergarten students at the start of each day. The tune that would ultimately become known to all of us as “Happy Birthday To You” began:

Good Morning to You,
Good Morning to You,
Good Morning Dear Children (or teacher),
Good Morning to All.


The sisters assigned the copyright for “Good Morning to All” to Summy in 1983 in exchange for a cut of the songbook’s royalties.

Patty Hill explained that the tune was quickly modified to fit a wide variety of circumstances, including “Good-bye to you,” “Happy journey to you,” “Happy vacation,” Happy New Year and, eventually, Happy Birthday. Throughout the course of the legal dispute, plaintiffs produced evidence that “Good Morning to All’s” melody had been changed to include the “Happy Birthday” lyrics as early as 1901. The first published version of the song with the lyrics appeared in 1911, and other published versions appeared in songbooks in the 1920s (One example the filmmakers’ point to is a 1924 songbook called “Harvest Hymns,” which includes the Happy Birthday song). In 1934, Jessica (another of the Hill sisters and heir of Mildred’s estate) and Patty Hill assigned several works to Summy, which Warner/Chappell contends included “Happy Birthday” with the lyrics.

A Messy Legal History

Happy Birthday may very well be the oldest – and most widely recognizable – orphan work of all time. In 2013, a documentary filmmaker challenged the copyright on the world’s most popular song, calling Warner/Chappell Music’s claim to copyright royalties bogus. The filmmakers’ claim was no small declaration. By 1996, Warner/Chappell, who since 1988 has purported to own the rights to the song, was collecting over $2 million per year in licensing fees. The basis of Warner/Chappell’s claim is a copyright registration from 1935, made by the Summy Company, Warner/Chappell’s predecessor in interest.

The filmmakers’ claimed that Summy, and therefore Warner/Chappell, never obtained a copyright interest in “Happy Birthday,” based on publications of the song before 1935 when Summy registered a copyright for the song. Warner/Chappell and the plaintiffs both agree that the familiar melody, by itself, lost its copyright protection in 1921, 28 years after “Good Morning to All” was published in 1893. Instead, the “Happy Birthday” lawsuit focuses on the song’s specific lyrics, which Warner/Chappell argued were not set to the melody in a published, authorized form until the 1935. If Warner/Chappell is correct, then “Happy Birthday” could potentially retain copyright protection through 2030. Warner/Chappell has been enforcing the Happy Birthday copyright since 1988, when it bought Birch Tree Group, the successor to Summy Co., which claimed it possessed the rights to the original copyright.

The filmmakers’ lawsuit builds on earlier criticism over the tune’s copyright, including George Washington University Professor Robert Brauneis’ now-famous 2010 history “Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song.” In it, Brauneis argues that “[Happy Birthday] is almost certainly no longer under copyright, due to a lack of evidence about who wrote the words; defective copyright notice; and a failure to file a proper renewal application.”

Last month, a federal judge in Los Angeles held that Warner/Chappell’s ownership claims were invalid. Specifically, Judge George King held that the copyright registration obtained by Summy in 1935 only granted Summy the rights to specific piano arrangements of the music, not the actual lyrics. Judge King found that while it was true Summy had published “Good Morning to All,” there was no evidence it ever acquired the rights to the birthday lyrics themselves from whomever wrote them, notwithstanding the Hills’ transfer of various rights in 1934. An earlier lawsuit in 1942 between the Hills and Summy seems to establish that the Hills’ 1934 assignment referred to “piano arrangements” only, not lyrics. If Summy never acquired the rights to the melody in conjunction with the “Happy Birthday” lyrics, then Summy’s purported successors in interest, Warner/Chappell, would lack a valid, enforceable copyright.

Prior to 1978, a work published with authorization from the copyright owner and proper copyright notice received federal statutory copyright protection for 28 years, with the option to be renewed for another 28 years. Works published with authorization but without copyright notice entered the public domain. Warner/Chappell claimed that “Happy Birthday,” although written in 1893, was not published with authorization until 1935, when it was registered. That registration was later renewed in 1962. Meanwhile, Congress extended the renewal term for copyrights from 28 to 47 years in 1976, and extended it again to 67 years in 1998. As a result, Warner/Chappell argues its extended “Happy Birthday” copyright term is valid through 2030.

The plaintiffs argued alternatively that “Happy Birthday” had been published with authorization before 1923, was published before 1935 but without a copyright notice, that the copyright had been abandoned before 1935, that Summy’s 1935 registration covered only the song’s piano arrangement and not its lyrics, and that Warner/Chappell could not prove it acquired the copyright through a valid chain of title. Since the melody is conclusively within the public domain, Warner/Chappell needed to demonstrate that any copyright assignments also transferred the “Happy Birthday” lyrics, which it could not do. It also is important to note here that the court placed the burden of proof on Warner/Chappell because it found Warner/Chappell’s original 1935 copyright registration to be flawed, and thus not entitled to a presumption of validity. The court declared the registration flawed based on the fact that the copyright’s original deposit copy was lost (so exactly what was deposited cannot be certain even though the registration certificate still exists) and because the registration cites Preston Ware Orem as the author of the “Happy Birthday” lyrics, even though Warner/Chappell does not claim Orem authored the lyrics and most people agree Orem did not author them.

King’s ruling does not mean that “Happy Birthday” is affirmatively in the public domain. It may still be possible that someone else owns the rights to the song if the Hill sisters did not convey the rights to Summy Co. With the sisters dead for nearly a century, however, figuring out who might be properly said to own the rights would be a complicated proposition. Without anyone other than Warner/Chappell claiming to own a copyright interest in “Happy Birthday,” the song will become a de facto resident of the public domain, even if King’s ruling does not place it there de jure.

Important Takeaways

The history – and future – of Happy Birthday teaches that even works that may have fallen into the public domain can still generate income and be licensed by companies or individuals because of the orphan works conundrum. Many may not want to invest the time and money it actually takes to verify licensors’ claims to copyright, effectively extending the copyright term of potentially public works. As Professor Brauneis noted, the story of Happy Birthday “reveals collective action barriers to mounting challenges to copyright validity: the song generate[d] an estimated $2 million per year, and yet no one ha[d] ever sought adjudication of the validity of its copyright.”

The case also illustrates problems generated by copyright term extensions, which force litigants to prove activity that may have taken place many decades prior. Growing uncertainty over the origins and chains of title of various works (compounded by technological advancements such as mass digitization) has contributed to an explosion in orphan works that copyright reformers and the Copyright Office alike agree are frustrating liability risks, “and a major cause of gridlock in the digital marketplace.”


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Brushy One String - Happy Birthday to Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sejtzpG1YvM

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Happy birthday to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc4gQqIIMl8

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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby chump » Fri Jan 08, 2016 12:02 pm

Happy Birthday!!





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Lunch With Elvis, Engineered Consent

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I meet Elvis at the 'Cip'.

I want to ask him about 'Engineered Consensus'; and enjoy the view of Venice.

We start with an aperitif made with tequila, cucumber, and ginger.

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Our first course arrives.

It contains prawn, crab, pink grapefruit aspic, cucumber sorbet, and Bloody Mary.

"Tell me about 'engineered consensus'" I say to Elvis.

"Well", says the ever youthful singer, "Let's imagine that Obama wants to bomb this city of Venice and then set up a naval base here.

"First he gets someone 'authoritative', such as Pope Francis, to say on TV that the USA must bomb Venice because the Venetians are dangerous people.

"Then various respected personalities, such as Tom Hanks, say that we must bomb Venice.

"CNN tells us that the St Mark's in Venice is inferior to the copy in Las Vegas.



Elvis waves to George Clooney and Björn Andrésen who are sitting at the next table.

"Fox news," continues Elvis, "tells us that only a fool would not want to bomb Venice, as it is full of terrorist Venetians.

"Top scientists tell us that the Venice Lagoon is full of poisonous substances and must be bombed.

"Congress passes a law requiring that Venice be bombed.

"The New York Times tells us that only conspiracy theorists want to save Venice.

"So, we end up with the idiot population thinking that they must bomb Venice."

...

Giorgio Armani enters the restaurant and sits down at the table on our left.

Our main course is sea bass and veg., washed down with some bottles of Bruno Giacosa Collina Rionda, Barolo.


I ask Elvis about the news that David Cameron 'was aware' British pilots carried out Syrian air strikes.

"With the tourists being killed in Tunisia, Cameron now doesn't have to worry," explains Elvis. "Remember that Obama said he is supporting ISIS."

"What really happened in Sousse?" I ask.

"Engineered consensus. Get Tunisians to support American bases and get the British to support air strikes in Syria."

An IOU for Every Man, Woman, and child.

Elvis next decides to talk about the current financial situation.

"Italy's Debt to GDP has risen from 116% to 132%", explains Elvis.

"And the US national debt has more than doubled since 2007, and is so large that it is mathematically impossible to pay it off."

What does that mean?

Elvis explains.

"Let's take Greece.

"Greece could sack those elements of its military and police who work for the Powers-That-Be.

"It could state that it is not going to pay back its debts.

"It could return to the drachma and nationalise its banks.

"It could leave the EU and NATO.

"It could rely as much as possible on its internal economy and live a simpler form of life."

I suggest that this will not happen and that if lots of countries default on their debts there will be an enormous worldwide drop in the prices of government bonds, property and other assets.



Elvis finishes his wine and says: "We should not exaggerate the problem.

"There are various possible solutions.

"Governments could cut spending on the military and on certain bloated highly paid government employees.

"Governments could force the super rich individuals and corporations to pay more in tax.

"Governments could crack down on fraud, tax evasion and waste.

"Governments could do more to promote small businesses, which are the key to success in countries like Switzerland."

"But, thanks to engineered consent, too many of us continue to support the criminals who run governments, militaries, banks and corporations."
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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby Iamwhomiam » Fri Jan 08, 2016 11:11 pm

This is the first time I ever read this thread! I never saw it before!!

So, Happy Birthday to all those whose special day has passed and I've missed!

Oh! and most a most belated thank you for your kind wishes on mine!
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Vernal Equinox

Postby IanEye » Sun Mar 20, 2016 1:59 pm

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"We drink to forget the coming storm'' is collection of forty tracks released on my fortieth birthday.

For just forty days and forty nights it is available for free (and for a donation) as a thank-you for your support and interest in my works.

For those wishing to pay for this album you can.

As this is released for my birthday I would suggest the price of a birthday whisky to be a fair price for this collection should you wish to pay. Then I feel we will raise the virtual glass connected together for good health and fortunes.

Running in total at over three hours. It is not a fixed release and should be used sparingly in your own favourite track combinations.

It can be used to uplift on the low days, to gain strength and clear the mind. Each track combines the same elements piano, digital strings and synthesized choir. There are dark twists and light passages. It leads you somewhere whilst going nowhere.

A reflection of a time passing, a glimpse back into my own past, a look forward into the forthcoming abyss. Recorded through the darkest night hours during periods of disillusionment. There were no second takes, so we enjoy the errors and misadventures.

Like life itself wrong notes may be hit, there maybe the odd distortion, melodies drift and we hope to gain strength from the introspective nature of the work. We cover no new ground. We wear our hearts on our sleeves.

Wishing you all the best from Krakow where I raise the glass of good spirit.

- Leyland Kirby 2014




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Re: We Throw Birthday Parties.

Postby MacCruiskeen » Wed Jul 13, 2016 3:43 pm

"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman, NYC, 1966

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