The music publisher points out some key flaws in a lawsuit that looks to establish that "Happy Birthday" belongs to all. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large With the English language’s most ...

The song is expected to be officially freed in July. By Ashley Cullins Sixteen Candles Ringwald Schoeffling with Birthday Cake - H 2013 Very soon filmmakers shooting birthday scenes and waiters ...

A settlement has been reached in a U.S. lawsuit with Warner/Chappell Music over the copyright to "Happy Birthday to You" that will put one of the world's most recognizable songs in the public domain, ...

Warner Music Group and others who fought to hold the copyright on “Happy Birthday to You” – listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most recognized song in the English language – have ...

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Restaurateurs, raise your hand if you didn’t know you were not allowed to sing "Happy Birthday" to your guests when they celebrated their birth at your restaurant—unless you paid a licensing fee to a ...

The song “Happy Birthday To You” is free for all to use after a judge ruled it is entirely in the public domain. U.S. District Judge George H. King found Tuesday that the song’s original copyright ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has ruled ...

LOS ANGELES - There's a twist in a long legal tangle over the copyright to "Happy Birthday to You." First, though, it's a surprise to many that there is still a claim to copyright on the song, which ...

A court in Los Angeles has ruled that 'Happy Birthday To You' is now in the public domain, meaning that Warner/Chappell Music will no longer collect royalties from the song. A US district judge ...

There’s a twist in a long legal tangle over the copyright to “Happy Birthday to You.” First, though, it’s a surprise to many that there is still a claim to copyright on the song, which is sung, well, ...

The music publishing company that has been collecting royalties on the song "Happy Birthday To You" for years does not hold a valid copyright on the lyrics to the tune that is one of the mostly widely ...