The Guinness Book of World Records calls "Happy Birthday to You" the most recognized song in the English language. But you'll rarely ever hear it on TV or in a movie. Instead, you usually hear ...

genius in three notes. Tomorrow marks Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday. We celebrate with a conversation Jeffrey Brown had recently with composer and pianist Rob Kapilow, who deconstructs music ...

Sept. 23, 2:18 p.m.: An earlier version of this article said “Happy Birthday” is a six-note song. It is actually an eight-note song. The story began in 1893, with a Kentucky schoolteacher and ...

The 2003 documentary, “The Corporation,” notes that Warner has charged as high as $10,000 for the song to appear in a film. The melody for “Happy Birthday” goes back to 1893, when sisters ...

The two-year-old “Happy ... Birthday to You” class-action suit that challenged the validity of the song’s stringent, decades-long artistic copyright finally received a ruling Tuesday: The ...

It turns out the publisher Warner/Chappell Music owns the copyright to the "Happy Birthday" song. That means that every time anyone wants to use the song, he must pay a licensing fee, sometimes as ...