For those of you who were worried...

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...it's now OK to use Happy Birthday without worrying about a DMCA takedown notice or other stupidity.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2015/sep/23/happy-birthday-copyright-ruling-singer-rupa-marya-video

Comments

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Commercials

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Sounds plausible.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

Indeed, although the story as I heard it said they filled in with profiles of the composer, the performers, maybe even a reading of the story of Noah from the bible.

But I'm sure they had a lot of ads.