IP as national property
August 21st, 2008, Tomasz RychlickiThere is a PC game called Beijing 2008. It looks like the Polish anthem is the only one to be badly recorded and by “badly” I do not mean the sound quality. There is a reaction in the net of course. You may find an article availabe at www.wp.pl website which is devoted to this issue. But I was more intrigued by such a statement.
Authors’ right to the anthem are the property of the whole nation so there is a lack of obligation to recieve a consent to use it. But it does not mean it may be any use - answered Iwona Radziszewska -spokesperson of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.