接下来的几个星期里,法官将会对此案做出判决。如果这首歌属于公共版权,它目前的版权所有者华纳音乐集团将会损失数百万美元的版权许可费用。此外,还有许多人认为,《祝你生日快乐》堪称现行版权制度中各种问题的象征,这首歌所涉及的所有创作者均已作古,但它的版权却仍然属于一家大公司,使用它还要向公司缴纳费用。此案如果胜诉,对于这些人来说也不啻为一种胜利。
“It is one of the few songs that you’ve heard for as long as you’ve lived, and you kind of thinkof it as a folk song, said Robert Brauneis, a professor at the George Washington UniversityLaw School who in 2010 published a skeptical study of the copyright of “Happy Birthday toYou.
“几乎没有什么歌能让人听一辈子,这首歌就是其中之一,你觉得它应该是属于民歌,乔治·华盛顿大学法律学院的罗伯特·布罗奈斯(Robert Brauneis)说,2010年,他就《祝你生日快乐》的版权问题发表了一份充满怀疑的研究报告。
The case also highlights the centrality of copyright claims to media businesses like the musicindustry, where the question of who owns the rights to a song can be worth millions of dollars.Advocates for rigorous copyright laws point out that they protect musicians as well as thecompanies that represent them. Still, their interpretation can rattle the industry; that was thecase in March, when a jury found that Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines had copied “Got toGive It Up, a 1977 hit by Marvin Gaye.
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