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

Instead of like this --Kynde (talk) 13:29, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

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 ~~~~)

The third line implies that "xkcd" should be pronounced as having two syllables.