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::::Works for me. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 12:54, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
:::: I found some (traditional) lyrics online for this song http://www.timmyabell.com/music/lyrics/ol/oldlady.htm, and almost all of second lines of each verse have exclamation marks. Also, the explanation about the spider is repeated in each verse (which makes better singing). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 05:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
:::: Also, it's (sometimes) traditional for the lines of songs to be centered (but not universally, of course). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 05:28, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
This section shares only a title with [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wheres-My-Cow-Discworld-Picture/dp/038560937X this] book by an excellent author.
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::Believe me, I'm unlikely to forget. I've lived with a paranoia about the RIAA for over a decade. I've removed the program results, and the code itself is incorrect, though it probably qualifies as a derivative work. I wonder if the current LOC exemptions set for the DMCA includes this form of 'educational use.' That said, I don't think they're going to care terribly much. I still want to look into when/if copyright was registered (the song was produced before things were automagically copyrighted without registration). If I can show that the copyright fell out of registration, or that a current LOC exemption would include RC, then I'd be comfortable moving forward with the task. If I get a DMCA notice, I'll take it down and replace it with an explanation of all the facts and a link to [chillingeffects.org chillingeffects.org]. I won't fight something in a way I can't afford to fight it.--[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 16:10, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
::: Actually, most implementations in code probably constitute fair use. The code is no more a derivative work of the song than a publication that describes the characters in the harry potter novels would be a derivative work of the novels. Any argument that code being asked for here is derivative of the song, for copyright purposes, would probably be an argument that the song is not a creative work. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 17:34, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
==Lyrics Versions==
The PHP example is tagged incorrect because its output does not match, but given that it seems that several versions of this song exist and that the result is not like a mathematical result, maybe we could avoid to care about this, what do you think?
: I suspect that all solutions are incorrect, because their lyrics are not matching [http://lyrics.wikia.com/Peter,_Paul_%26_Mary:I_Know_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swallowed_a_Fly these lyrics from 1993]. The old lady never swallows a donkey. After she swallows a horse, "She's alive and well of course!" --[[User:Kernigh|Kernigh]] 23:52, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
:: I think that those are lyrics. I do not think that those are the only lyrics. So if all solutions are wrong because they do not match those particular lyrics they would also be wrong if they matched those lyrics (because in matching those lyrics they would not match other lyrics that began the same way). --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 12:03, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
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