24th August 2010, 12:19 PM
Yeah.
But i'm curious though because if you make a parody of something (Star Wars) and copy everything down to a T with the only stipulation of 'make it funny' you can steal anything. So why cant this be done with Happy Birthday? Weird Al steals songs out right, just makes it funny and this is perfectly accepted. So I can imagine 'Have a very happy unbirthday" is owned by Disney regardless of the lyrics and notes being almost the same, but what about "Stupid birthday song to you, stupid birthday song to you, we avoided the copyrights, stupid birthday song to you."?
But i'm curious though because if you make a parody of something (Star Wars) and copy everything down to a T with the only stipulation of 'make it funny' you can steal anything. So why cant this be done with Happy Birthday? Weird Al steals songs out right, just makes it funny and this is perfectly accepted. So I can imagine 'Have a very happy unbirthday" is owned by Disney regardless of the lyrics and notes being almost the same, but what about "Stupid birthday song to you, stupid birthday song to you, we avoided the copyrights, stupid birthday song to you."?