![]() But by then, the cultural damage, the decades of careful evasion that kept the familiar melody out of movies and TV, had been done. The track was justly inducted into the public domain in 2013, after a clever documentarian filed a class action lawsuit against the record label. In addition to being boring, repetitive and brutally cheerless, “Happy Birthday to You” has the distinction of having been mired in litigious controversy for the better part of a century, dubiously lining the Warner Music coffers by squeezing millions of dollars in bogus royalties out of everyone, from TV networks to the Girl Guides of America. ![]()
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