I ran across the Unhappy Birthday website. It is a good website giving out the information on the copyright which is involved with the song "Happy Birthday". It also shows the craziness that has become our copyright law. Copyrights were designed to allow for limited protection, unfortunately congress keeps extending that, so it is effectively unlimited.

The other cool thing about the site is that it uses graphics from the Open Clipart Library. It is great to see that library getting used, everyone I talk to loves it. It is also really good promotion for SVG and Inkscape.


posted Mar 4, 2005 | permanent link