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by bediger4000 1231 days ago
The first situation isn't copyright violation because some monied entity went out and litigated against Warner/Chappell music. That's the problem with copyright - until you've litigated, which is expensive, you just can't tell what's in and what's out of copyright. You wrote "almost certainly" because of that.
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> You wrote "almost certainly" because of that.

No, I didn’t.

I was hedging against the too-clever HN commenter coming back and saying, “The robot knew you were going to sell the painting” or “You sang the game on the Jumbotron at Yankee Stadium.”

Because of the litigation, even singing "Happy birthday to you" on the Jumbotron is not infringement. But only because of the litigation.