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Warner Music collected over two million dollars in royalties in 2008 for public usage of the “Happy Birthday” song.

By: Kelly Branco, Art & Music Editor
March 4, 2019
Photo Credit: Photo via Flickr under Creative Commons License
Interesting Birthday Fact: The Birthday that happens on the day of the month you were born is called your “Golden Birthday”. For example, when you turn 24 on the 24 of a month.

That’s right! The “Happy Birthday” song isn’t actually for free. Warner Music has had the rights to the song since 1935 and doesn’t intend to give it up.

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Kelly Branco
Kelly Branco, Art & Music Editor
Kelly Branco is a senior and this is her first year working on The Declaration. Branco is a fan of theater, she loves to perform and watch Broadway shows whenever she can. She is an anchor for Patriots Television and does the fun fact every morning. She is in the Colonia High School Theater Department, sings for the Harmony in Motion Show Choir, and AcaPatriots, A Capella Choir. Last year, Branco got the Seal of Bi-Literacy in French and she speaks Portuguese.  She loves to read in her spare time. She is going to Fairleigh Dickinson University in the Fall of 2019 with a Musical Theater major.
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Warner Music collected over two million dollars in royalties in 2008 for public usage of the “Happy Birthday” song.