The controversy of the copyright of the most famous melody, ' Happy Birhday to You'

A lawsuit brought to Warner Music requests that the million dollars that has been collected through "licensing rights illegal" returned.

"Happy Birthday to You" is a song known all over the world that you can hear millions of times every day. However, make use of a single song part involves a cost of up to $ 1,500 copyrigth.

An amount that has been demand by filmmaker Jennifer Nelson claiming that the original piece, which is an adaptation of a tune from the 19th century, is in the public domain.

As reported by The Verge, Nelson has found a declaration of the full composition copy that confirms that the song dates back to 1893, and which author's rights on any part of the song they expired in 1921.

After having signed a license agreement with the subsidiary of Warner Music Group which owns the copyright, Warner Chapelle, Nelson has filed a lawsuit in a New York Court with the objective that will override the claim of copyright of the producer.

"This statement shows that if Warner Music has any right on ' Happy Birhday to You' is limited to a very small to reproduce and distribute part piano arrangements specific to the song posted in 1935", explained Nelson.

The demand brought by the filmmaker has that the piece is in the public domain and ask Warner Music return the millions of dollars collected through "licensing rights illegal".

In our country, in the field of copyright, the past December 7 approved the Decree which put an end to the system of the canon digital and replaced it by a new compensation in charge of the General State budget which must be received by the holders of intellectual property rights for the private copying of their works.

The European Union will eliminate the roaming rates among its members the summer of 2014

Representatives of the 27 EU Member States seems that they are committed to the implementation of major reforms as the farewell to the rates for roaming to its citizens.

The idea of the project is that the users of EU countries can travel throughout the European Union and enjoy the same prices on their calls than those in communications which at the local level.

Basically, a Spanish Subscriber that trip to Finland would pay the same for a call made between Madrid and Helsinki that by making it between Madrid and Barcelona.

As regards the date on which the measure will be implemented, suggests that it could approve in 2014 may coincide with the European elections and in the best of cases would enter into force on July 1.

Excision of the roaming will mean a reduction of 2 per cent of the income of operators of mobile services, but in the long run they will win money because users accessing more internet through their phones when they travel for Europe.

In addition, the EU also arises change the landscape in the market of mobile telecommunications companies and seems inevitable that they will have to go some operators report on The Telegraph.

In that sense it is considered unsustainable if walking toward a single market of mobile communications there are about 100 operators in United States only when there are four running.

The future is expected is to sign alliances of mobile companies that end up in mergers in the style of those produced in the world's airlines.

Internal communication, the unresolved issue of Spanish companies

A study highlights the insufficient implementation of internal communication strategies in their business, despite knowing its benefits.

A survey by Foromarketing shows that the majority of companies surveyed considered communication internally and privilege of large corporations.

47% Of the respondents pointed out that internal communication in your business is limited to a very basic form of direct dialogue between employee and superior.

However there are many channels to promote, most of them new technologies driving them. The most used are the email (20.23%) meetings (19%), intranet (14%) and internal newsletter and social networking and forums, both with 10%.

Only 19% of respondents believe that corporations are aware of its benefits, but when it comes to indicate the specific benefits is denoted a significant lack of knowledge.

19% Believed that the main benefit is the creation of a culture of enterprise, and 18% awarded to internal communication the strength to build a climate of confidence and motivation. Only 5% considered that it is useful in cases of crisis management.

35% Of respondents coincides in that is the general management of the company who must deal with tasks related to internal communication.

Week in negative for the majority of the Nasdaq stock

Nasdaq closes a negative week where most of the stock market index values have recorded losses.

BlackBerry is of the few values given a joy.After the decline of the past week, in the accumulated since Monday achieved a rise of 3.97% and today March almost flat with a - 0.21% and 14,34 dollars.

Intel leads from Monday a rise of 1.26% although today descends a 0.48% to be located in the $24,87.

Facebook collects this week a growth of 0.17% but on Friday its situation is negative since it loses 1.73% putting their titles on the $23,32.

Dell Gets a flat result and pass the Middle session Friday sailing with 13.45 dollars which closed yesterday. In the total of the week sheds some light losses of 0.30%.

For Google the week has just changes over the previous. The drop Monday was 0.21% and Friday March with gains of 0.11% who leave the actions in the $877,99.

Amazon this week presents a slight drop of 0.63% and two hours from the closing of Friday lost 0.22% which puts the value in the $275,18.

In the case of Apple, the Cupertino branded titles do not have good news, since fall from Monday by 2.67% and Friday is letting a 1.21% puts the value in the $430,24.

In the case of Microsoft, the Redmond company ends with a high drop of 3.64% in five days, and on Friday the fall is 1.08%, which puts the value in the $34,34.

For his part, Cisco this week presents a decrease accumulated 1.31%.  Today the shares are at 24.18 dollars and a 0.71 percent drop.

Finally, it is also bad week on the Nasdaq for Yahoo, which is today with a decrease of 0.57% sailing 26,22 dollars and the weekly total falls a 3.03%.

Vice President corporate strategy and development from Microsoft will leave

Andy Lees, who currently holds the position of Vice President of corporate strategy and development at Microsoft, has decided to leave his post but will remain linked to the company.

Already last April there was speculation the possible March Andy Lees, and now appear more data on what will make the Steering in the future.

As it has unveiled Web AllThingsD, the leader will take a sabbatical in order to be able to spend more time in England with his family.

This summer is expected to read explain what will be his position in Microsoft ended the period of leave, because what is clear is that it will continue to work for the Redmond giant.

Lees held the position of head of Windows Phone until December 2011, date in which abandoned the charge to be accused of was not having good relationships with major hardware manufacturers.

The Steering was several months in the refrigerator until November of last year he returned to take up his current position as Vice President of corporate strategy and development at Microsoft.

Berlin will not follow the footsteps of Munich and refuses to bet on Linux

Microsoft will not lose presence on the computers of the administration of the city of Berlin despite attempts by some politicians to bet on Linux.

The Green Party had proposed in the State Parliament in Berlin that the city would undertake a migration of 25% of the teams work with all servers to Linux.

The environmental politicians plan was revised by a Commission and finally rejected after receiving the votes against the coalition of SPD and the CDU, matches that currently govern in the German capital.

Among its reasons for rejecting the proposal, the CDU said that it was clearly based on prejudice in favor of the software open source against proprietary solutions.

In Exchange for his refusal, the parties in power in Berlin wanted to compensate the supporters of the open source go-ahead to a request that promotes the adoption of more open standards.  

From the Green Party have long been working to ensure the adoption of the open source software in public bodies, and a similar proposal to the one just discussed also was rejected in the past.

The France Telecom Board is deliberating the future of CEO

After the investigation into a possible case of fraud put up against the leader of the operator, its continuity in the mandate is in the air.

The future of the Chief Executive of France Telecom, Stéphane Richard, remains in suspense since last Monday came his pre-trial detention by a possible case of fraud during his time as an advisor.

The judicial investigation launched against Richard aims to clarify the role of the CEO in the case of arbitration between the entrepreneur Bernard Tapie and the French Bank Crédit Lyonnais.

We have studied the possible illegality of the compensation of EUR 403 million which charged Tapie.

The Board of France Telecom, the fourth largest group of telecommunications in Europe, whose 27% is still owned by the French State, will meet in the coming days to discuss the fate of Richard.

The verdict that the Government offer of President François Hollande probably will determine the outcome, while the State has only 3 of the 15 seats in the Executive, according to sources familiar with the management of the company have said to Reuters.

Digital economy, Fleur Pellerin, Minister said that the Government must decide "If the decision of the judge (to put it under investigation) is an problem so that Richard will remain in his post", and added that talks between the members of the Board are ongoing.

"It's rating if the judicial decision has disabled him," explained Pellerin.

For his part, Stéphane Richard has denied the accusations and France Telecom did not want to comment.

So far investors of the company have been taken calmly this issue, which does not seem to be too affected by the Group on the stock exchange.

France Telecom had just announced a new strategic step by adopting the Orange brand for all its operations. The objective is to become a global player in the digital age and to project its financial evolution.