"The song 'Happy Birthday to You' is widely credited for being the most performed song in the world. But one of its latests venues may be the federal courthouse in Manhattan, where the only parties may be the litigants to a new legal battle.
The dispute stems from a lawsuit filed on Thursday by a filmmaker in New York who is seeking to have the court declare the popular ditty to be in the public domain, and to block a music company from claiming it owns the copyright to the song and charging licensing fees for its use."
From the June 14, 2013 New York Times article, Birthday Song's Copyright Leads to a Lawsuit for the Ages, by Benjamin Weiser.
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