New evidence should free 'Happy Birthday' from copyright: lawyers

By Peter Vincent
Updated July 30 2015 - 1:08am, first published 1:02am
Happy Birthday, the song, still earns its owner, Warner Music, a nice income. Photo: Laurent Davoust
Happy Birthday, the song, still earns its owner, Warner Music, a nice income. Photo: Laurent Davoust
<i>Happy Birthday</i> is at the centre of happy birthday celebrations.
<i>Happy Birthday</i> is at the centre of happy birthday celebrations.

It's the world's most popular song, played somewhere in the world hundreds of times every the day. But you could be about to hear it a lot more often.