Re: Happy Birthday!

I am a teacher/librarian in British Columbia and also a member of St David by the Sea parish of the Anglican church of Canada. Recently it came to my ttention that we, as a parish church, may be breaking copyright law by using the tune to "Happy Birthday" and singing our own words. As a Librarian, I am familiar with Copyright Law but somehow thought this particular song would be in the public domain by now. If not, we, as a parish, would like to contact the family who holds the copyright and ask permission to use it in our services or pay an appropriate royalty. Can you help?

				Thanks!
				Norma Jee