How Mozart wrote Happy Birthday
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No doubt the Warner-Chappel Corporation will be sending their witless legal eagles to slap injunctions on all future productions of The Marriage Of Figaro in future – in the desperate hope of making a buck.
Bit late for that. “Happy Birthday” was ruled to be out of copyright in September 2015:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/23/us-judge-rules-happy-birthday-is-public-domain-throws-out-copyright-claim