They didn't build anything....produce anything...nothing you can look at, or put your hands on....and they walk away with millions of bucks from some so trivial...
Maybe I'm just old...and bitter...I guess I just don't understand the way the world works now-a-days...
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The pitch was the copyright laws had to be extended yet again to protect the interests of songwriters, authors, filmmakers, and cartoonists.
No one who was collecting money at this date on Happy Birthday had anything to do with its creation or family lineage to those who did. It was corporate cronyism based on theft and lies to the tune of tens of millions of dollars in revenue. A federally protected shakedown racket on bars and restaurants (ASCAP license fees and goon squads or else you had to teach your waitstaff some OTHER song than “Happy Birthday To You”).