Incredible, the yodel's worth jumped from 3 to 7 figures once the artist's lawyers evened the playing field!<p>This story reminds me of the Nike logo one, quote Wikipedia: <i>For her services, the company paid her $35 ($206 in 2015 dollars), citing that she worked 17.5 hours on creating the Swoosh</i>.
I'm curious about IP protection on a 3.5 second performance, comprising 3 notes.<p>What would appropriate "fair use" look like? And evidently, the fact that Yahoo made it their branding was something legally different than a local performance. Odd system we have.