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CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The law is only as powerful as people are willing to enforce it.

Just because it’s a “goddamn motherfucking law” doesn’t mean shit if powerful corporations are willing to spend unholy amounts of money to make you prove it in court.

The “Happy Birthday” song was believed to be in the public domain for centuries but Warner Brothers was able to convince people to just pay them a license fee in order to prevent going to court. It was only in 2016 that a court ruled that it was in the public domain.

So yeah…Disney could have been real douches about this. But they are, uncharacteristically, being nice about it.

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