{"id":154,"date":"2011-07-29T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/happy-birthday-to-you-royalty-free\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T06:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:43:53","slug":"happy-birthday-to-you-royalty-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-to-you-royalty-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday To You &#8211; royalty free music? Actually, no&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div class=\"a-b-f-i-p-he a-f-i-p-he\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Yw33GBSXCYs\/TjL7t6gNwpI\/AAAAAAAAAhg\/dn5QUEJGXBs\/s1600\/Birthday-Cake-Photos-2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Birthday-Cake-Photos-2.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-b-f-i-p-R\">We got a  call from a customer who was looking to buy the classic &#8220;Happy Birthday  To You&#8221; song as royalty-free music. We didn&#8217;t have the track and at  first both the customer and myself found it a bit odd. But I found out  that in fact this track is still under copyright to two old ladies in  Florida and therefore, that track <b>cannot<\/b> be purchased as  royalty-free music \/ stock music. We would be breaking copyright if we  were to offer it &#8212; even if we made our own arrangement and recording of  it, because the actual composition itself is in copyright.<\/p>\n<p>We have this &#8220;alternative Happy Birthday Song&#8221; instead: <br \/>\n<a class=\"ot-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/track\/10367\">http:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/track\/10367<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay,  it may be a bit cheesy, but if you&#8217;re making something like an  electronic greeting card or just an office fun project, I think it  really hits the spot. Happy Birthday! <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a call from a customer who was looking to buy the classic &#8220;Happy Birthday To You&#8221; song as royalty-free music. We didn&#8217;t have the track and at first both the customer and myself found it a bit odd. But I found out that in fact this track is still under copyright to two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116,82],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shockwave-sound","tag-happy-birthday-song","tag-royalty-free-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}