31 July 2015Copyright

Five things we learned this week: Happy Birthday, .sucks trademark, and more

This week the copyright dispute over the “Happy Birthday to You” lyrics heated up, while Vox Populi filed a trademark for ‘.sucks’. Here we provide some analysis on those developments, as well as three more.

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