ABSTRAK Penulisan ini membahas mengenai permasalahan perlindungan hak ciptaatas lirik dari sebuah lagu terkenal, berjudul ?Happy Birthday To You?. Lirik?Happy Birthday To You? merupakan karya turunan dari karya yang telah adasebelumnya, yaitu lagu berjudul ?Good Morning to All?, yang diciptakan olehMildred dan Patty Hill. Diketahui bahwa lirik ?Happy Birthday? menggunakanmelodi ?Good Morning?, yang telah menjadi domain publik sejak lama. Namun,tidak diketahui apakah lirik tersebut dimaksudkan menjadi suatu joint workdengan melodi ?Good Morning? atau tidak. Mempersulit permasalahan tersebut,pencipta sebenarnya dan pemilik hak cipta atas lirik ?Happy Birthday? tidakdiketahui dan tidak dapat diidentifikasi, sehingga lirik tersebut dapat dikatakansebagai karya ?yatim piatu?. Disebabkan tidak diketahui dan tidak dapatdiidentifikasinya penciptaan dan kepemilikan atas lirik ?Happy Birthday?, tidakterjadi pengalihan hak cipta yang sah dari Hill bersaudara kepada Summy Co.,yang mengakibatkan lirik ?Happy Birthday? tidak ada pemilik hak ciptanya dansaat ini menjadi domain publik.Dalam upaya memahami lebih lanjut mengenai permasalahanperlindungan hak cipta atas lirik ?Happy Birthday?, penulis menganalisa tentangkarya turunan, karya ?yatim piatu?, dan kepemilikan hak cipta dan pengalihannya,melalui dua peraturan yang berbeda, yaitu Undang-Undang Indonesia Nomor 28Tahun 2014 Tentang Hak Cipta dan U.S. Code: Title 17 ? Copyrights. ABSTRACT This study addresses the issue of copyright protection against the lyrics ofa famous song, titled ?Happy Birthday To You.? ?Happy Birthday To You? lyricswas initially a derivative works created from a preexisiting work, a song titled?Good Morning To All? created by Mildred and Patty Hill. It is known that the?Happy Birthday? lyrics use the melody of ?Good Morning,? which has been inthe public domain for long. However, it is unknown whether those lyrics aremeant to be a joint work with the melody of ?Good Morning? or not. Tocomplicate the matter further is both the original creator and owner of ?HappyBirthday? lyrics are unknown and unidentified, thus the lyrics can be consideredas an orphan works. Due to the unknown authorship and ownership of ?HappyBirthday? lyrics, there had been no valid copyright assignments of it from Hills toSummy Co., which resulted in ?Happy Birthday? lyrics has no copyright ownerand now in public domain.In an effort to comprehend further the problem of copyright protectionagainst the lyrics of ?Happy Birthday?, this author analyzes about derivativeworks, orphan works, and copyright ownership and assignment, from twodifferent copyright acts, which are Indonesian Law No. 28 of 2014 on Copyrightand U.S. Code: Title 17 ? Copyrights. |