"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 ...

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

In the 1980s, the copyright holder contemplated pursuing Congress for singing “Happy Birthday” to President Reagan. After the rights to the song were acquired by Warner Music Group in 1988 ...

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 ...

The company has agreed to pay back $14 million to those who have paid licensing fees to use the song. "This is a huge victory for the public, and for the artists who want to use 'Happy Birthday to ...

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 ...

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 ...