Shostakovich is Illegal

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/supreme-court-weighs-legality-of-putting-public-domain-works-back-under-copyright/

delete all your recordings before 2012, unless you paid to copyright holder.

But Justice Antonin Scalia was skeptical. "It seems to me Congress either had the power to do this under the Copyright Clause or it didn't," he said. "I don't think that powers that Congress does not have under the Constitution can be acquired by simply obtaining the agreement of the Senate, the President, and Zimbabwe."

Justice Breyer, long known as a copyright skeptic, pointed to one example of the harm the restoration of copyright did. Save the Music is an organization that works to preserve Jewish music from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Breyer noted that the organization, and others like it, are being hampered from posting the works they collect online, even though most of the creators have been dead for decades.

Oh Vey! Now we have to pay for our jewish music! It's like another shoa!

Copyright in the United States has been unconstitutional foar a long time. There is noa real way to interpret "limited time" in any other way.

"In 1991, when the Belgian group named Apotheosis produced a heavily re-sampled version of "O Fortuna", the estate of Carl Orff successfully sued to stop the distribution of the record on the grounds of copyright infringement.[16][17] The verdict also affected the version by Fortuna ft. Satenig, which in the week of the verdict just reached the #1 position in the Dutch charts Nationale Top 100, while Apotheosis was at #3.[18] The week after, the two songs began quickly slipping off the chart."

Seven Towns, the people behind the Rubik's Cube brand, have gone after Dayan for copyright infringement on stickers.

The color scheme that Rubik's has Copyrights to, is: White - Yellow, Blue - Green, Red - Orange. More specifically, when these colors are used on a cube, in the RWB clockwise configuration, it then represents the Rubik's copyright image. So the image (logo or brand recognized image) is what's the issue here.

If anyone recalls the Japanese color scheme, this issue has happened before. The solution at that time was to use the same colors as Rubik's, but configure them in a different order... Blue - White, Red - Orange, Green - Yellow. But now it looks like Dayan has chosen to comply to Seven Town's request to change their colors. Orange, will now be replaced with Purple.