{"id":10158,"date":"2013-06-14T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10158"},"modified":"2013-06-14T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:34:21","slug":"annals-of-law-7-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10158","title":{"rendered":"Annals of law (#7 in a series)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a well known fact (at least among those interested in copyright, those obsessed with trivia, and those who wonder why restaurants make up their own birthday songs) that &#8220;Happy Birthday to You&#8221; is under copyright until 2030 in the United States (and 2016 in the EU).<\/p>\n<p>But there is a significant dispute over whether this copyright is valid. Jennifer Nelson, a filmmaker working on a documentary about the song, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/14\/nyregion\/lawsuit-aims-to-strip-happy-birthday-to-you-of-its-copyright.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\">has filed a lawsuit seeking to have the song declared to be in the public domain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/14\/nyregion\/lawsuit-aims-to-strip-happy-birthday-to-you-of-its-copyright.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\">The rich history of the song\u2019s evolution and the conclusion that it might be in the public domain closely tracks the findings of Robert Brauneis, a professor at the George Washington University Law School and the author of a 68-page article titled \u201cCopyright and the World\u2019s Most Popular Song.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the study, Professor Brauneis said that \u201cit is doubtful that \u2018Happy Birthday to You,\u2019 the famous offspring of \u2018Good Morning to All,\u2019 is really still under copyright.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a well known fact (at least among those interested in copyright, those obsessed with trivia, and those who wonder why restaurants make up their own birthday songs) that &#8220;Happy Birthday to You&#8221; is under copyright until 2030 in the United States (and 2016 in the EU). But there is a significant dispute over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10160,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions\/10160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}