Hooray! You won't have to pay anymore to sing "Happy Birthday to You!" What? You weren't respecting the copyright?

[Amanda]

JK.
Sort of.

The company who's been fraudulently collecting to sing it (movies and whatnot) now has to refund $14 million

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/happy-birthday-is-public-domain-former-owner-warnerchapell-to-pay-14m/

[Axtremus]

Good news!

[ShiroKuro]

@Amanda Wow that’s super interesting! I remember, a few years after I started playing piano, I was trying to get a score for happy birthday and that’s when I learned about the copyright. I remember something about it struck me as odd… maybe this was it. ??