US Judge holds the song ‘Happy Birthday to You’ to be in Public Domain and denies Copyright claim [Read the Jt]

A federal court single bench in Los Angeles has held that the song ‘Happy Birthday to You’ needs to be freely available in the public domain, a move that is considered to be a setback to the Warner Chappell Music company that has been collecting royalties from the song for decades in the US until 2030, and in the EU until 31 December 2016..US district judge George H King declared on...