“Happy Birthday” Lawsuit: “Smoking Gun” Emerges in Bid to Free World’s Most Popular Song Attorneys for suing filmmakers uncover a blurry version of an 88-year-old book in the files of ...

On July 17, 2025, The Wall Street Journal published an exclusive report claiming U.S. President Donald Trump once sent a ...

"The songbook that we tracked down shows that the publisher authorized the publication of the lyrics to 'Happy Birthday to You' in 1921 or 1922," Schacht told ABC News.

“Thanks for coming to my dad’s birthday party,” said Micah Nelson, a few songs into an all-star tribute to Willie Nelson at the Hollywood Bowl, attended by a sold-out house happy that Willie ...

Some "newly discovered evidence" may be just the silver bullet that could put the classic song "Happy Birthday to You" in the public domain. The decades-old song that nearly everyone in America ...