The ‘Happy Birthday’ song, which people have used to celebrate for over 100 years, is getting a remodel thanks to TikTok. During May, Danyell Randall (@yellz_lesspartywithyellz) celebrated her ...
On Tuesday a judge ruled that “Happy Birthday”—y’know, the song—is now in the public domain. U.S. District Court Judge George F. King declared that there was no evidence that the sisters who wrote the ...
Turns out the song you've sung at every single birthday party your entire life is actually copyrighted. Jennifer Nelson, president and owner of her own film production company, was making a ...
The two-year-old “Happy Birthday to You” class-action suit that challenged the validity of the song’s stringent, decades-long artistic copyright finally received a ruling Tuesday: The six-note ditty ...
The world's most popular English language song is potentially free from copyright after a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that filmmakers challenging Warner/Chappell Music's hold on "Happy Birthday to… ...
If the thought of everyone singing "Happy Birthday" makes you want to crawl under the table, you're not alone. People who ...
Check out the tracks that will make you party like it's your birthday. Gathering friends and family around a candlelit cake to sing “Happy Birthday to You” has been a birthday tradition in ...
The song "Happy Birthday" has joined the public domain, ending a long-running suit over its copyright. Music publishers earned as much as $2 million per year in licensing commercial use of the popular ...
You can now sing "Happy Birthday" without risking a lawsuit after a U.S. federal judge has thrown out a copyright claim to one of the most lucrative and recognized songs in the western world. On ...
None of the companies that have collected royalties on the “Happy Birthday” song for the past 80 years held a valid copyright claim to one of the most popular songs in history, a federal judge in Los ...