Sample clearance is generally not required if:
- You are just using the sampled music at home.
- You are using the sample in live shows. This is because,
usually, you are not making copies and the owner of the venue
pays the blanket license fees to performing rights organizations
such as Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) or American Society of
Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).
- You plan to distribute copies to the public but meet one of the
following: (1) an average listener would not notice the similarities
between your end product and the sample, or (2) your use of the
sample falls under the "fair use" doctrine. For more information on
these, see "Defending a Lack of Sample Clearance," below.
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I assume you're referring to the rule that works from before 1923 are all in the public domain. Apparently the rule is all works that were copyrighted before 1923 are in the public domain.
A work is considered to have been copyrighted before 1923 if it was published:
* in an authorized publication
* in the United States
* before 1923
* and had a proper copyright notice
The sticking point here is that the purported owners of the copyright claim that the 1911 publication of Happy Birthday to You was unauthorized. Therefore, since the first authorized publication was in 1935, the copyright should run from that date.
I think the key here is the table heading is "Works Registered or First Published in the U.S", I assume they mean that the first publication is authorized.
I don't think so, it really is just registered or published. There are cases where the copyright notice matters, but they are handled with care in this listing.
On this page, in section 4, "The myth of the pre-1923 public domain", there is an explanation about authorized publication:
"For publication to have occurred, the work must be issued with the authorization of the copyright owner. A “pirated” copy of a work published in 1922 without the copyright owner’s authorization is, for the purpose of copyright, considered to be unpublished. If a copyright owner subsequently authorized publication in, say, 1970, the work received a 95- year term starting on that date. Reproducing or otherwise using the 1922 work in a way that implicates one of the rights of copyright would infringe on the copyrights established by authorized publication in 1970."
It goes on to specifically reference Happy Birthday to You as an example of this principle.
That makes the ruling even more interesting. If Warner doesn't own the copyright, they don't have standing to say the 1911 publication was unauthorized.
In order to argue that, wouldn't they have to show that they authored the song well before 1911, but didn't publish it, and that somebody else somehow found their unpublished song and stole it? Because otherwise, it sounds like the 1911 "Happy Birthday" is either an independent creation or else they took the song from the 1911 author.
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Hitmeister.de is one of the largest online shopping portals in Germany, with over 2 million customers to date. We have a warehouse from which we sell items directly, but we also have a marketplace with over 2,000 sellers running their own shops. We're seeing solid growth and we're looking for more programming talent to grow and improve the site.
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Unfortunately, there are cases where it is still necessary. For example, IE 10 reports that it supports the CSS pointer-events property, but it only works on SVG elements, not HTML elements.
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A similar, little-known disease caused by a lack of dietary diversity is pellagra. It's caused by a lack of vitamin B3 (niacin). In the early 1900s it became an epidemic in the southern United States, due to (largely poor, rural) people's diets consisting almost exclusively of corn.
The most interesting part of the disease is that corn actually contains vitamin B3, but it cannot be absorbed by humans when eaten by itself. Native people always treated corn meal with lime, which allowed the vitamin B3 to be digested. When Europeans came to the Americas and learned about corn from the native people, they thought it was stupid to put lime in their food so they left that part out. Thus, causing a disease that afflicted 3 million people and killed over 100,000.
· the “lime” we’re talking about here is not the fruit, but the strong alkali slaked lime, i.e. whitewash or mortar, made by roasting limestone. You can apparently also use lye (Drano), and I wouldn’t be surprised if fermented urine (lant) also worked, but I really recommend that you know what the fuck you’re doing before you start trying to cook with Drano or construction materials. This may help understand the Europeans’ reluctance.
· nixtamalization is done on the whole corn, not on the corn meal. Nixtamalized corn is also known as “hominy”, and if you’re from the US you’ve probably heard of it under that name. It’s been common in the US since colonial times.
· When you nixtamalize corn, you don’t leave the lime in your food. You have to rinse it out after the long, slow nixtamalization process. Otherwise, the result is really bitter.
· Nixtamalization is indeed a traditional practice with a broad pre-Columbian distribution, but it is almost unknown in South America, even though the native cultures here in South America are much more intact and in many ways less assimilated than in North America; this suggests to me that it may not be true that “Native people always treated corn [...] with lime”. I mean, maybe Tawantinsuyu universally nixtamalized its corn, and then the Spanish stamped out the practice so thoroughly that you can’t find nixtamalized corn in the grocery stores there today, even as a special holiday product like chuño; but it seems much more likely to me that nixtamalization just was not universal or even common there in pre-Columbian times.
The pellagra epidemic is one of my favorite examples of how ignorance kills people.
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