{"id":37811,"date":"2013-06-14T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/14\/putting-happy-birthday-to-you-into-the-public-domain.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:55:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:55:55","slug":"putting-happy-birthday-to-you-into-the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/14\/putting-happy-birthday-to-you-into-the-public-domain.html","title":{"rendered":"Putting "Happy Birthday to You" into the public domain"},"content":{"rendered":"
Most people don't know it isn't, but "Happy Birthday to You" it's currently owned and licensed out by a branch of Warner Bros., which earns a few million dollars a year from groups, film makers, etc., who want to do public performances of it. \u00a0(That's one reason why restaurant chains tend to make up their own birthday tunes.)<\/div>\n

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Birthday Song\u2019s Copyright Leads to a Lawsuit for the Ages – NYTimes.com<\/a>
\n A filmmaker is seeking to have a court declare the popular ditty to be in the public domain and to block a music company from charging licensing fees for its use.\n <\/p>\n

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Most people don't know it isn't, but "Happy Birthday to You" it's currently owned and licensed out by a branch of Warner Bros., which earns a few million dollars a year from groups, film makers, etc., who want to do public performances of it. \u00a0(That's one reason why restaurant chains tend to make up their … Continue reading “Putting "Happy Birthday to You" into the public domain”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-intellectual-property","category-media-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1614,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/03\/happy_birthday.html","url_meta":{"origin":37811,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Dec-01 9:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is my Dad's birthday. 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