‘Happy Birthday’ Set Free

Happy Birthday song

Victors in a long legal battle, Donahue Fitzgerald partners Andrew MacKay ’98 and Daniel Schacht ’08 have freed the world’s most-played song, “Happy Birthday to You,” from copyright. Warner/Chappell Music, which claimed the copyright, will return $14 million in royalties. This fall, Schacht will co-teach a music law seminar at Berkeley Law.