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To: ReignOfError

As I recall, there wasn’t a problem with Happy Birthday until “Sir” Paul got a hold of the rights. The Marcarena guys did this with the Girl Scouts as well.


20 posted on 12/29/2010 10:08:08 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy
As I recall, there wasn’t a problem with Happy Birthday until “Sir” Paul got a hold of the rights.

Paul McCartney has bought a lot of song catalogs over the years, but he never owned "Happy Birthday." The small publisher that owned the rights was bought out by a Time Warner subsidiary in 1998.

The Marcarena guys did this with the Girl Scouts as well.

I don't doubt it. If the Girl Scouts were making the Macarena song part of their events, it's only fair that they should pay the people who created it. It's not a lot of money, and it's negligible when spread out over a large organization like the GSA.

33 posted on 12/29/2010 10:38:36 AM PST by ReignOfError
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