The "Happy Birthday" Song Is No Longer Copyrighted, Judge Rules
"Happy Birthday to You," no matter how many times you've sung it without paying anyone, has not been in the public domain. A federal ruling in L.A. on Tuesday has changed the candle-blowing game, though.
"In a stunning reversal of decades of copyright claims, the judge ruled that Warner/Chappell never had the right to charge for the use of the 'Happy Birthday To You' song," the L.A. Times reports. "Warner had been enforcing a copyright since 1988, when it bought Birch Tree Group, the successor to Clayton F. Summy Co., which claimed the original disputed copyright."
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