When celebrating your child's birthday, this song has gorgeous lyrics that will pair perfectly with a photo or video montage. 31. Dolly Parton - "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby" ...

According to the opinion on Tuesday from U.S. District Judge George H. King, “Because Summy Co. never acquired the rights to the Happy Birthday lyrics, Defendants, as Summy Co.’s purported ...

LOS ANGELES – A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over whether "Happy Birthday to You" — one of the best-known and beloved songs in the world — is owned by a music publisher who ...

For generations, "Happy Birthday" — a tune sung to almost every American every single year of his or her life — has made millions of dollars for its aggressive copyright owners.

Lawyers argue "Happy Birthday" should be public domain 01:12. Warner/Chappell has said it didn't try to collect royalties from just anyone singing the song but those who use it in a commercial ...

The Summy Co., which published Song Stories for Children, won a copyright in the 1930s for the Happy Birthday lyrics put to Mildred's melody, but Brauneis said it was only for arrangements written ...

"Even though the lyrics to Happy Birthday to You and the song Happy Birthday to You had not been fixed in a tangible medium of expression, the public began singing Happy Birthday to You no later ...

Billboard's best birthday songs of all time. Okay, “22” only fully works as a birthday song when the listener is actually turning 22 — but its impact on the demographic is so vast, it’s ...

The book contained Happy Birthday lyrics. ... filed the class-action lawsuit in 2013 after being told she’d have to pay $1,500 to use the song in her “Happy Birthday” documentary.

"Happy Birthday to You" is sung everywhere, ... Nelson and her lawyer, Randall S. Newman, argue that the copyright for the song — that's the tune and the lyrics — expired by 1921.

The “Happy Birthday” song dates to late 19th century work by a schoolteacher named Patty Smith Hill and her sister Mildred Hill. The Hill sisters later assigned rights to a publishing company ...