The settlement comes after United States District Judge George H. King ruled in September that Warner/Chappell’s copyright on the song was invalid. The rights to “Happy Birthday” had ...

On Thursday, Warner/Chappell began an effort to save the “Happy Birthday” copyright by asking for a second and maybe a third opinion. The music publisher is seeking Judge King’s ...

At a hearing on Warner/Chappell’s effort to dismiss much of the case, U.S. District Judge George H. King instead indicated that he would seek to “bifurcate” the proceedings, first ...

And King said Warner/Chappell could not prove that the sisters gave the rights to the "Happy Birthday" lyrics to Summy Co. "Defendants ask us to find that the Hill sisters eventually gave Summy Co ...

"Finally, the charade is over. It's unbelievable." Mai-Duc reports that lawyers for Warner/Chappell are currently going through King’s 43-page-long ruling to determine what options they may have ...

King ruled in their favor ... in the ruling are Hollywood's movie studios and filmmakers, who were Warner/Chappell's primary targets and made the payments simply to avoid a legal battle.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - President and CEO of Warner Chappell Nashville, Ben Vaughn, has died, according to Billboard. He was 49. Billboard reports that Vaughn’s cause of death has not been ...

AVC: How did that get attached to The Woman King and reworked into its end-credits song? JW: So we wrote it, worked on it, gave it to Warner Chappell, and went about our business. And then only ...

Warner Chappell's CEO/co-chair explains how he's changed the company during his tenure, the influence of AI and his plan to keep the publisher standing out from the crowd. By Kristin Robinson ...

Warner Chappell Music has accelerated payments to songwriters and introduced more transparent accounting. It follows significant investment by the music publisher in its rights management systems ...

Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy, No. 22-1078, 601 U.S. __ (2024). Nothing that reaches the Supreme Court, however, is ever as simple as just reading a statute, and here there is much more to ...