OT: Next Time you sing happy birthday

[James Knott]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:04:12AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote
>   
>> OK, so now my question would be: If a company - such as for example
>> Swiss Chalet - which has American offices, sings a US copyrighted song
>> that isn't such in Canada... could they still be sued?
>>
>> One might want to remember the fate of the neteller execs when they
>> had a connecting flight through the US:
>>
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/0035220
>>
>> From what I remember of this case, the gentlemen in question were
>> actually not even decision-makers, but rather shareholders, and I've
>> even heard that they'd left that role before the new US law went into
>> effect.
>>
>> You might think "it won't happen to me", but I suppose that those
>> execs, or others such as Mr Arar though the same. Heck, if you're into
>> online gambling, or have Cuban Cigars in your luggage, I'd be careful
>> that your non-US flight doesn't have to have some form of diversion or
>> emergency landing in US soil... it's just scary.
>>     
>
>   As a lifelong small-c conservative, I never thought I'd ever say this,
> but the collapse of the USSR has been a bad thing for the rest of the
> world.  The US is the only bully left in the schoolyard, and it can do
> what it damn well pleases.  Who ya going to turn to to help you against
> them?
>
>   
FWIW, I saw that the music was from the 19th century and the words were
copyright in 1935.  I would assume they were copyright only in English,
so I suppose the French version could be performed legally.


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