The Happy Birthday Song was used in the first-ever singing ... the Medal of Freedom to Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Eugene Ormandy. 12. The anniversaryof GMTA’s composition is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The settlement will also send "Happy Birthday To You," the 120-year-old song that is one of the most popular songs in the English language, into the public domain. Judge George H. King will still ...

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 ...

The two-year-old “Happy Birthday to You” class-action suit that challenged the validity of the song’s stringent, decades-long artistic copyright finally received a ruling Tuesday ...

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 ...