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 ...

Good Morning to You. Good Morning Dear Teacher. Good Morning to All. There is little dispute that in the 1890s the Hill sisters wrote the precursor to Happy Birthday, a song for Patty's ...

For generations, "Happy Birthday" — a tune sung to almost every American every single year of his or her life — has made millions of dollars for its aggressive copyright owners.

"Happy Birthday to You" is sung everywhere, but because it's copyrighted, it's rarely heard on TV or in movies. A filmmaker has filed a lawsuit seeking to make the song part of the public domain.

"Happy Birthday," the world's best-known English-language song, is now legally yours. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Warner/Chappell Music's claim to the 120-year-old song wasn't legal ...

Lawyers argue "Happy Birthday" should be public domain 01:12. Warner/Chappell has said it didn't try to collect royalties from just anyone singing the song but those who use it in a commercial ...

Good Morning to You Productions Corp. had filed the suit in 2013, after it was threatened with a $150,000 penalty for using “Happy Birthday” sans permission in a documentary about the song.

None of the companies that have collected royalties on the "Happy Birthday" song for the past 80 years held a valid copyright claim to one of the most popular songs in history, a federal judge in ...