the well-known song "Happy birthday to you" ("Happy birthday to you") has a difficult fate. The melody was officially written in 1893 by the Hill sisters, elementary school teachers from Kentucky. Only then this song was called “Good morning to you” and the text was like this:
Good morning to you
Good morning to you
good morning, dear children,
Good morning to all.
The students liked the song so much that they began to sing it at birthday parties, changing it a little. And more and more people memorized this simple melody and words. So gradually "Happy birthday to you" became one of, if not the most famous song in English, and is now translated and performed in at least 18 languages around the world. One of the most famous performances of this song was the Marilyn Monroe version she sang for John F. Kennedy.
About 10 years ago, in 1998, over the adoption in the United States of a new law on the renewal of intellectual property rights, real legal battles broke out that also affected "Happy birthday to you" - one of the judges of the US Supreme Court specifically mentioned this song in his special opinion. After that, many researchers turned to the question of whether the copyright on "Happy birthday to you" is still valid.
Disputes are still going on ... In 2005, Cambrew MacLoad argued for the invalidity of copyright for the lyrics of the song "Good Morning to All" and the melody: almost the entire melody already existed before this version, and the text was composed together by 5-6-year-old children, and in In 2008, after extensive research, Professor Browneys concluded that there was great doubt that the rights to the song "Good Morning to All" still belonged to someone.
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