When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For a song as iconic as "Happy Birthday," the rights issues behind its usage in films have been ...

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 six-note ditty ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Now you can sing "Happy Birthday" in public and not have to pay a licensing fee. A Los Angeles federal judge approved a settlement agreement on Monday, ending the ...

LOS ANGELES-- A judge has approved a settlement that will put "Happy Birthday to You" in the public domain. U.S. District Judge George King approved the agreement Monday. It ends the ownership claims ...

Check out the tracks that will make you party like it's your birthday. Gathering friends and family around a candlelit cake to sing “Happy Birthday to You” has been a birthday tradition in ...

LOS ANGELES — In a stunning reversal of decades of copyright claims, a federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Warner/Chappell Music does not hold a valid copyright claim to the Happy Birthday To ...

It's Miley Cyrus' birthday! A generational icon whose career is a relentless treasure of reinvention, moving seamlessly from ...