To wit, the royalties that Warner/Chapell Music claims for any public performance of the song, amounting to millions of dollars each year, based on dubious (if not outright fraudulent) copyright claims.
If nothing else, if it gets restaurants out of the business of singing their own godawful birthday songs, it will be worth it.
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Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain; Demands Warner Pay Back Millions Of License Fees | Techdirt
Happy Birthday remains the most profitable song ever. Every year, it is the song that earns the highest royalty rates, sent to Warner/Chappell Music (which makes millions per year from “licensing” the song). However, as we’ve been…
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Happy lawsuit to you.
Happy lawsuit to you.
Happy lawsuit dear Warner.
Happy lawsuit to you.
Copyright was originally something like “the life of the creator plus 20 years”. How the law got changed to include stuff that ought to have long since expired is something of a mystery. Right Mickey?
Scott Randel, there’s no “Like” button but consider, had it existed, that it were clicked with great emphasis!