{"id":43975,"date":"2014-07-29T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T04:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/29\/heres-hoping-theres-an-end-to-the-happy-birthday-business.html"},"modified":"2014-07-31T07:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:08:41","slug":"heres-hoping-theres-an-end-to-the-happy-birthday-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/29\/heres-hoping-theres-an-end-to-the-happy-birthday-business.html","title":{"rendered":"Here's hoping there's an end to the Happy Birthday business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n

If nothing else, if it gets restaurants out of the business of singing their own godawful birthday songs, it will be worth it.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain; Demands Warner Pay Back Millions Of License Fees | Techdirt<\/a>
\n 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…\n <\/p>\n

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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.\ufeff Embedded … Continue reading “Here's hoping there's an end to the Happy Birthday business”<\/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-43975","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":128138,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/23\/sing-happy-birthday-without-fear-of-royalties-huzzah.html","url_meta":{"origin":43975,"position":0},"title":"Sing "Happy Birthday" without fear of royalties — huzzah!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Sep-15 1:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"A US federal judge has ruled that \"Happy Birthday\" is now in the public domain. 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