Warner/Chappell Music. In February 2016, Warner Music finally ended the long-fought battle when it paid $14 million to put “Happy Birthday” into the public domain. In June of the same year ...

If you've celebrated a birthday at your favorite restaurant, odds are the staff didn't sing you the Happy Birthday song you know and love -- for legal reasons.

Bob Dylan gave Tracy Chapman a birthday shout-out via the social platform X Sunday: “Happy birthday Tracy,” he wrote, alongside a picture that probably dates to the 1988 tour where she opened for him.