The plaintiffs who started two years ago a lawsuit to try to prove that the song “Happy Birthday to You” is not subject to copyright just presented a document that could lead to the famous melody to be for public use and free.
Several specialized media as The Hollywood Reporter lawyers gathered today for the plaintiffs, which include the filmmaker Jennifer Nelson, presented new evidence on Monday before a district court in California.
Nelson in 2013 filed a lawsuit against Warner / Chappell, a division of Warner Music, the record after he asked $ 1,500 for intellectual property concept of “Happy Birthday to You”, which used a documentary about the famous birthday song.
The familiar melody was taken from the song of the late nineteenth century “Good Morning to All”, the sisters Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith.
The music giant Warner bought the small company that owned the rights to “Good Morning All”, Birchtree Ltd, and collects about two million dollars a year for the concept of intellectual property for the use of the famous song .
The evidence presented by the plaintiffs now a songbook published in 1927 containing the letter “Happy Birthday” with no copyright notice and predates the registration of copyright of the tune is , held in 1935.
Therefore they believe that the song was common knowledge long before it was registered and claim to be, again.
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