According to the opinion on Tuesday from U.S. District Judge George H. King, “Because Summy Co. never acquired the rights to the Happy Birthday lyrics, Defendants, as Summy Co.’s purported ...

‘Happy Birthday’ was composed by two American sisters, Patty and Mildred J Hill, who wrote the melody in 1893. Patty was a school teacher and Mildred was a pianist and composer. The melody was ...

LOS ANGELES – A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over whether "Happy Birthday to You" — one of the best-known and beloved songs in the world — is owned by a music publisher who ...

None of the companies that have collected royalties on the "Happy Birthday" song for the past 80 years held a valid ... A 1922 copy of “The Everyday Song Book,” containing lyrics to “Happy ...

Billboard's best birthday songs of all time. Okay, “22” only fully works as a birthday song when the listener is actually turning 22 — but its impact on the demographic is so vast, it’s ...

The Summy Co., which published Song Stories for Children, won a copyright in the 1930s for the Happy Birthday lyrics put to Mildred's melody, but Brauneis said it was only for arrangements written ...

On Sept. 22, 2015, U.S. District Court Judge George H. King ruled that the copyright to the lyrics of the popular song “Happy Birthday to You” is no longer valid.

While the song carried the original title, someone altered the lyrics in the second stanza to “Happy Birthday to You,” the Hall of Fame wrote. Over time, the lyrics changed even more until the ...

No one can trace the song back any further than the Hills, who admittedly didn’t write the “Happy Birthday” lyrics, and who might have even copped the melody from another song.