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“Happy Birthday to You” – The Most Popular Song in the English Language, May be About to be Liberated From Copyright
Submitted by KenK on Fri, 2015-09-25 00:00
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"Chief Judge George King of the Central District of California has decided, in a 36-page opinion, that 'Happy Birthday to You' — whose melody was written 'some time before 1893' and whose lyrics date to around 1901 (or, at the latest, 1911, when they first appeared in print) — is in the public domain, free from all copyright claims." But the current copyright holder is appealing though.
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