"Happy Birthday To You is a terrible song," says Uri Bram in Atoms vs Bits. "It's a terrible song in general and a terrible ...

One of Nelson's lawyers, Mark Rivkin, said as Nelson did more and more research on the song's roots, "she got madder and madder and madder." Happy Birthday generates an estimated $2 million a year ...

"Happy Birthday," one of the most popular songs in the English language, is now public domain. The candles have been blown out on the "Happy Birthday" copyright lawsuit. Warner/Chappell ...

"Happy Birthday," the world's best-known English-language song, is now legally yours. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Warner/Chappell Music's claim to the 120-year-old song wasn't legal ...

None of the companies that have collected royalties on the “Happy Birthday” song for the past 80 years held a valid copyright claim to one of the most popular songs in history, a federal judge ...

Warner/Chappell Music. In February 2016, Warner Music finally ended the long-fought battle when it paid $14 million to put “Happy Birthday” into the public domain. In June of the same year ...

Ever wonder why you rarely hear the “Happy Birthday” song in movies and TV shows? There’s a simple reason — it costs a lot of money to use it. That’s right, the song that Guinness World ...