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by chc 3922 days ago
In order to argue that, wouldn't they have to show that they authored the song well before 1911, but didn't publish it, and that somebody else somehow found their unpublished song and stole it? Because otherwise, it sounds like the 1911 "Happy Birthday" is either an independent creation or else they took the song from the 1911 author.