Talk:1581: Birthday
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/23/happy-birthday-song-now-in-public-domain.html mwburden (talk) 11:09, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
https://ia601904.us.archive.org/13/items/gov.uscourts.cacd.564772/gov.uscourts.cacd.564772.docket.html 162.158.92.245 11:26, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
Why is there a <code> box around the transcript? Forrest (talk)12:51, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
- Because someone wrote the text with a space between each line instead of beginning each line with ":"
Like this
There are nine musical notes, not six. 173.245.50.92 13:40, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
"Some might claim" seems wishy-washy to me. Perhaps it would be better to say "calling the cops in such situations is neither socially appropriate nor beneficial: this is the source of the humor in this comment." Djbrasier (talk) 14:15, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
This appears to be one of the few comics with both Black Hat and White Hat. 199.27.133.116 15:47, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
I don't have a sub to law360, nor do I wish to bother giving them my throwaway email. What was the basis of the ruling? Why is this public domain now? -- NotLock (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- It's not, text updated. 108.162.250.161 06:39, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
The third line implies that "xkcd" should be pronounced as having two syllables. 108.162.250.163 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Clearly you have never heard "Happy Birthday" sung to someone with a really long name. It doesn't matter if it's two syllables, you just stretch it out. 173.245.48.123 04:08, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- The song can accommodate names of different lengths, consider the following https://youtu.be/vWs3035D69k?t=1m23s 108.162.250.180 08:45, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
AFAIK The ruling only applies to the lyrics, they still have a valid copyright to the music, so if you sing the song you had better make sure it's to a suitable tune that is out of copyright!
One in 366 xkcd fans turned to the page today and initially thought that Randall had used a code not dissimilar to what Google uses to change the banner to a birthday greeting on the users' birthday. I was one of those fans... :-) 141.101.99.23 09:33, 24 September 2015 (UTC)