Ugandan Composer Wants Royalties For The National Anthem

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 09/24/2008 - 11:45

One of the unfortunate byproducts of a culture that teaches us that something like a song can be "owned" and that each time it's played the "owner" needs to get paid, is you end up with situations like the following one, where the composer of Uganda's national anthem is suing the government for copyright infringement , claiming it owes him royalties for every time the song has been played by the government.

Without knowing the details of Ugandan copyright...


 

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