“Happy Birthday to You,” dubbed the world’s most popular song, now belongs to the world thanks, in part, to lawyers at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz.
Partner Mark Rifkin, along with solo practitioner Randall Newman, successfully represented filmmakers in a closely watched class action against the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corp., which claimed to own the copyright to the song and had charged for its public use since 1988. A federal judge in California ruled in September that the company does not own the Happy Birthday copyright, and the parties reached a settlement in December that includes $14 million for those who have paid to use the song.
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