• Judgy_McJudgerson@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The one the restaurants use and the copyrighted one that families use.

    Restaurant: “happy happy birthday from all of us to you. We wish it was our birthday so we could party too! Hey!”

    Family/copyright: “happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, -name-. Happy birthday to you.”

    • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Except it is not copyrighted anynore

      From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You

      The music and lyrics are in the public domain in the European Union and the United States. The copyright expired in the European Union on January 1, 2017. A U.S. federal court ruled in 2016 that Warner and Chappell’s copyright claim was invalid and there was no other claim to copyright.