Next time you sing Happy Birthday, don't forget the cash.

[pilot]

So that you can pay a subsidiary of Time/Warner, as they hold the rights to the song.

Wow, corporations are buying up everything.:crazy:

Let's hear it for the "Big Guy".

[Filo]

Happy Birthday was copyrighted in 1935. AOL Time Warner does hold the copyright now, but they have since 1998 when they bought a company called Birch Tree (which held the copyright since the '30s). They do collect royalties for its use, if it is used for commercial reasons (like a movie), so unless you are singing it during your stripper routine on Comedy Central, I think you will be OK not paying for it.

You made it sound like they went out yesterday and bought the rights so they could get money out of you for singing it for great grandmas 98th birthday. I just had to set the record crooked.

[puckstr]

that song sucks. I much prefer the Beatles version.