WHERE: Hartman Green
WHAT: Sing Happy Birthday to Ben Franklin
WHEN: Tomorrow (Thursday) @ 12:15pm
WHY: The copyright to the song Happy Birthday is owned by the TimeWarner company, so singing Happy Birthday in public without their permission is technically illegal. But we think it’s wrong for such a fundamental part of our culture to be owned by a corporation, so we’re going to go ahead and sing it anyway. We’ve also got a shot at setting a Guinness World Record. Don’t you want to help make history?
WHAT SHOULD I SING, EXACTLY?
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday Ben Franklin,
Happy Birthday to you.
FIND OUT MORE: UnhappyBirthday.com, Snopes’ article on Happy Birthday’s copyright status
(The Ben Franklin photo above is released under a Creative Commons license and was taken by quinnums.)
