{"id":2413,"date":"2016-02-28T20:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T02:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2016-02-28T20:59:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T02:59:57","slug":"warner-music-pays-14-million-to-end-happy-birthday-copyright-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2413","title":{"rendered":"Warner Music Pays $14 Million to End &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; Copyright Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>According to a court filing on Monday, music publisher Warner\/Chappell will pay $14 million to end a lawsuit challenging its hold on the English language&#8217;s most popular song, &#8220;Happy Birthday to You.&#8221; Additionally, the settlement stipulates a proposed final judgment and order\u00a0that would declare the song to be in the public domain. A memorandum in support of the settlement sings the praises of the deal as &#8220;truly, an historic result.&#8221;\u00a0U.S. District Judge George H. King will have to sign off on it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/thr-esq\/warner-music-pays-14-million-863120\">Warner Music Pays $14 Million to End &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; Copyright Lawsuit &#8211; Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But for now, the settlement provides a big final act to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/thr-esq\/happy-birthday-all-filmmaker-aims-568355\" target=\"_blank\">class action lawsuit<\/a> brought by\u00a0film director\u00a0Jennifer Nelson<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>who was making a documentary about &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; and was asked to pay a $1,500 license fee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a court filing on Monday, music publisher Warner\/Chappell will pay $14 million to end a lawsuit challenging its hold on the English language&#8217;s most popular song, &#8220;Happy Birthday to You.&#8221; Additionally, the settlement stipulates a proposed final judgment &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}