I think they are implying that public domain works are attacked globally because a company thinks they own it in one country. Take Happy Birthday, for example: in the UK it is considered a traditional song and is therefore public domain, but in the US there are no such protections against copyright and therefore Time Warner thinks they own it.
The problem is that Universal is the owner of the copyrights (including the lyrical and syncronisation copyrights), and this is DMCA we're talking about. This would end up differently in Europe or UK (the original authors are irrevocably entitled to some percentage of the revenue, typically 5%) but DMCA is based on American laws (which do not have these protections).
dafoex|5 years ago
est31|5 years ago
I don't think even they think that anymore:
> On June 28, 2016, the final settlement was officially granted and the court declared that the song was in the public domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#Copyrigh...
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