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Originally Posted by cvkemp
I am 67 years old and Happy Birthday has been song at every birthday party I have been to public or private as for back as I can remember. Lots of times it was at locations with lots of police there. And I spend 8 years in the military where we always celebrated everyone's birthday by singing Happy Birthday.
I do not know where you are coming from but it can not be from the USA.
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The copyright of the song in the US is disputed, but the company which claims to hold the copyright (a company called "Warner/Chappell Music") only requires payment for
commercial use of it - eg in films or TV programmes. They make something like $2m a year in licensing fees from it in this way.