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.

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 ...

“When I wrote ‘Happy Birthday,’ I had Georgia’s song ‘Besties’ in my head,” says Tyler Hyde, referencing how Georgia Ellery wrote the album’s lead single. “Therefore, the ...