{"id":147,"date":"2003-01-04T23:41:24","date_gmt":"2003-01-04T23:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=147"},"modified":"2003-01-04T23:41:24","modified_gmt":"2003-01-04T23:41:24","slug":"happy-birthday-to-aol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/01\/04\/happy-birthday-to-aol\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday To AOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/music\/songs\/birthday.htm \">the happy birthday song is protected by copyright<\/a>? The publishing rights to the song, which brings in around $2 million a year, belong to AOL Time Warner. All those waiters in restaurants who sing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; without paying royalties to AOL Time Warner are thieves.<br \/>\n&#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; is one of many creative works that could move into the public domain if the Supreme Court rules in favor of <a href=\"http:\/\/eldred.cc\/\">Eric Eldred<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the happy birthday song is protected by copyright? The publishing rights to the song, which brings in around $2 million a year, belong to AOL Time Warner. All those waiters in restaurants who sing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; without paying royalties to AOL Time Warner are thieves. &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; is one of many&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/01\/04\/happy-birthday-to-aol\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday To AOL<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright-content"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-2n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}