You probably can recite 2 birthday songs from memory, but only 2. (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Except it is not copyrighted anynore

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You

The music and lyrics are in the public domain in the European Union and the United States. The copyright expired in the European Union on January 1, 2017. A U.S. federal court ruled in 2016 that Warner and Chappell's copyright claim was invalid and there was no other claim to copyright.

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