The US justice decided that the song “Happy Birthday” used worldwide to wish someone a happy birthday, is free from copyright payment.
The sentence was handed down on Tuesday at a court in Los Angeles and ends a legal dispute over ownership, by the record Warner publisher, the copyright of one of the most famous, and possibly most sung, songs around the world.
The publisher Warner / Chapell, Warner Music Group, guarantee that owned the rights that song, and as evidence a document that he bought in 1988, dating from 1935 and belonging to the Summy Co company.
“Happy birthday” is a derivation of the song “Good morning to all”, composed in the late nineteenth century by the sisters Mildred and Patty Smith Hill, who gave the rights of the melody in 1935 the company Summy Co ..
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