Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Happy Recent Berfday To ME!

You may not have realized this, but "Happy Birthday" is still technically under copyright.

OR IS IT?

Thanks to some diligence and plain old research (have I explained how archivists and librarians are my heroes?) there may be some evidence that Mildred and Patty Hill never really had a valid copyright claim to the song at all.

You can read more about it here and here.

AT LAST WE WILL SUBVERT AND OVERTHROW THE DOMINANT NATAL-ANNIVERSARIAL-MUSICO-COMPLEX!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE PEOPLE.


There are also several Bananapants sites explaining that celebrating birthdays are sinful:
here
here
here
and here (bonus points to this one with tying in with Anton LaVey).  


I bring all of this up for no particular reason at all.

QUIZ:
Celebrated horror author Stephen King celebrated a birthday this week.  
With what famous author (and SF genre creator) does he share a birthday?

Correct answers in person after 7:55 tonight! 
Remember, this is the NO-BOOZE WINNING quiz. 
Check Frank's Facebook page for the shotworthy question!

EXCELSIOR!

-tpn











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