Tag Archives: public domain

Further Update on Happy Birthday Copyright

Posted on 2015-09-23 by arjaybe

A US judge (George King) has ruled that Warner/Chappell, which acquired the copyright to Happy Birthday in 1988, only bought rights to specific arrangements of the melody, not to the actual song. Warner/Chappell got the rights when it bought another … Continue reading →

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Interstellar Seeds Could Create Oases of Life

Posted on 2015-08-28 by arjaybe

In 2004 I wrote a short piece for my local newspaper in which I speculated about the possibility of comet impacts splashing chunks of Earth back into space, and some of the life in those chunks surviving long enough to … Continue reading →

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15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense – Scientific American

Posted on 2015-07-03 by arjaybe

This article is over ten years old, but it is still apropos.  Creationists are still using the same empty arguments, and this article still neuters them.  I know I have repeatedly had to endure these quibbles, put forward with such … Continue reading →

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