Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Gary Larson's "Far Side" Doesn't Like Fan Art

JHoagland opened this issue on May 10, 2016 ยท 20 posts


Kazam561 posted Wed, 11 May 2016 at 11:41 AM

Oh and side note, Warner/Chappell and the Warner Music Group famously abused this in film and other media in regards to the song "Happy Birthday" which it turns out by judges ruling they don't own. A documentary film maker challenged them and discovered through investigation that for many years Warner (thought they owned the song which it turns out used the melody from another song they didn't own "Good Morning to You"). It turned out the original creator had used the melody in their creation of the original. One would think the judge would have ruled that Warner still owned the lyrics but this had to do with whether the song was in public domain (which it should have been). Warner had been receiving about 2 million a year with their "pay up as we own it" to every media that used it.

The dust settled, thinking "what a fine home, at least for now" not realizing that doom would soon be coming in the form of a vacuum cleaner.