record companies to try and screw up systems <OT>

[Lee]

On Saturday 03 May 2003 10:51 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I thought ownership does expire.
> I was watching the director's cut on a DVD for a low budget movie. He had a
> character whistling a tune. He pointed out the tune had to be from before
> some date, like 1935, in order to avoid patent concerns.
> I haven't heard of anyone suing over downloaded classical works.
> Joel

It's kind of a weird area. Back in 1922 one of the top songs was." Yeas we 
have no bananas." The song made a lot of money for its day but the only thing 
the song writer got was sued because the music was based on a Mozart tune 
that someone had gotten the copyrite to.'

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