Roll over, Mildred and Patty Hill...

/ dave / arouet at winternet.com
Sun Apr 28 03:35:39 PDT 2002


How amusing it was, all things considered, to hear an Arabic version of "Happy Birthday To You" - yes, that one - emanating from loudspeakers in Baghdad in honor of Saddam's 65th B-Day this weekend.

One can safely assume that AOL/Time-Warner, notwithstanding their having reported the largest quarterly operating loss in corporate history this week, will refrain from endeavoring to collect their public performance royalties on the song from the Baath Party (the rights to which were purchased by Warner Communications in 1988, for $25 million). But undoubtedly it crossed some executive's mind, before being dismissed with a pang of regret...

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/ dave /



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