Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
From what I understand.....HAPPY BIRTHDAY is still under copyright protection and will be for another 16 years or so.


What Snopes has to say about it.


Could be.... that's why the Beatles did a totally different song about birthdays?

And why most every restaurant that has the wait staff sing to the birthday person has a different birthday song.

If the staff would sing that one song and only that one song to birthday people, and if that was the only song ever sung in that restaurant, the restaurant would have to buy an ASCAP license.

It's an example of what I think is excessive about current copyright laws.

Again, I support copyright, but think some fine tuning should be applied -- and I'm not sure exactly how much tuning is needed.

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