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: If it was registered in 1951, it may have fallen out of copyright. All works published in the US prior to a date (somewhere in the 1930s?) will have fallen out of copyright, but some afterward will have as well, depending on whether they bothered to renew their registrations. I'm not an expert on the subject, though. Trying to identify how to look up registration history on a work. Otherwise, yeah, that stands to be a major problem. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 13:25, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
: If it was registered in 1951, it may have fallen out of copyright. All works published in the US prior to a date (somewhere in the 1930s?) will have fallen out of copyright, but some afterward will have as well, depending on whether they bothered to renew their registrations. I'm not an expert on the subject, though. Trying to identify how to look up registration history on a work. Otherwise, yeah, that stands to be a major problem. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 13:25, 16 August 2011 (UTC)


:We should not that the recording industry is known to a bunch of litigious ''<insert your own appropriate word here>''. Which is another reason to err on the side of caution. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 15:47, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
:We should also note that the recording industry is known to a bunch of litigious ''<insert your own appropriate word here>''. Which is another reason to err on the side of caution. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 15:47, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

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“Where's my cow?”

“I knew an old lady who swallowed a cow. I don't know how she swallowed the cow.” –Donal Fellows 23:34, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Here--Dgamey 00:03, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Go ahead and implement a correct version, and mark my PHP example incorrect. --Michael Mol 00:52, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Copyright!

According to this and this and this the song is not that old and has an author. I note that none of those quote the lyrics so I think we may be on shaky copyright grounds. --Paddy3118 06:10, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

If it was registered in 1951, it may have fallen out of copyright. All works published in the US prior to a date (somewhere in the 1930s?) will have fallen out of copyright, but some afterward will have as well, depending on whether they bothered to renew their registrations. I'm not an expert on the subject, though. Trying to identify how to look up registration history on a work. Otherwise, yeah, that stands to be a major problem. --Michael Mol 13:25, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
We should also note that the recording industry is known to a bunch of litigious <insert your own appropriate word here>. Which is another reason to err on the side of caution. --Paddy3118 15:47, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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