This reminds me of an episode of Sports Night where Josh Charles' character, Dan, gets in trouble for singing Happy Birthday to Peter Krause's character, and as a result makes the rounds asking everyone at the show what songs in the public domain they want him to sing for their birthdays.
DAN: I've got the intellectual property cops crawling up my butt.
ISAAC: The intellectual property cops?
DAN: Yeah.
ISAAC: Are crawling up your butt?
DAN: The heat's all over me.
ISAAC: What the hell are you--
DAN: I sang "Happy Birthday" to Casey on the air.
ISAAC: When?
DAN: Well, on his birthday, Isaac.
ISAAC: Sure.
DAN: I'm being charged a thousand bucks by the copyright holder.
ISAAC: Someone holds the copyright to "Happy Birthday"?
DAN: The estate of Patty and Mildred Hill of Anchorage, Kentucky.
ISAAC: Anchorage is in Alaska. (Note: But in the actual show it was something more along the lines of "It took two people to write that song?!" which is so much funnier!)
DAN: Turns out there's also one in Kentucky. Anyway, I've put together a short list of songs in the public domain and I'm letting everyone pick the song they'd like to have sung to them on their birthday.
ISAAC: Why are you talking to me right now?
DAN: For you, I've boiled it down to "Les Trois Capitanes" by Giuseppe Verdi or "Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum".
ISAAC: Are you on any medication right now?
DAN: I'm gonna go with the Verdi.
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God, I loved that show!!!