Happy Birthday – the worlds most popular song is not under copyright according to lawsuit | Music | The Guardian

A recent article in the Guardian reports that the song Happy Birthday has ran out of copyright without the publishers realising! This means that Warner Chapel have some compensation to pay! Copyright expires anyway in the EU – meaning we can expect to hear the music being used much more in the movies we watch 🙂 See the link below

World’s most popular song is not under copyright, according to lawsuit | Music | The Guardian.

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Academic working at the University of Glamorgan
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