![]() ![]() The fact that a little ditty sung thousands of times a day around the world, and which only contains five words (not counting the person's name), was subject to copyright laws was serious Snark Bait. So, instrumental or foreign-language versions were exempt from this rule. It was borrowed from an older song, "Good Morning to All", the copyright on which expired decades ago. However, while the lyrics to "Happy Birthday to You" were under copyright, the melody was not. Given the events cited above, this will no doubt change - in fact, it has already changed for many of those chain restaurants - but for now nearly every work you'll encounter will probably be using an alternative or The Jimmy Hart Version. That makes this now a Discredited Trope, and possibly even a Dead Horse Trope.)Īs a result, when a birthday is being celebrated on television or in the movies, it's fairly rare for those involved to actually sing "Happy Birthday to You." "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow" is often substituted (British shows may use "A Fine Old English Gentleman" instead), unlike in the real world, where singing anything other than "Happy Birthday To You" is almost unheard of (except when the singers are the waitstaff of certain chain restaurants, for exactly the same reason). Oh, and the copyright expired in 1985 in Canada. In the United States, a federal court ruled in 2016 that the song is in the public domain and had been for decades, contrary to claims by Warner/Chappell Music. (The copyright expired in the European Union on January 1, 2017. ![]() It may well be an old standard, but up until the middle-late 2010s the song "Happy Birthday to You" was not in the public domain. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. ![]()
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