Talk:Old lady swallowed a fly: Difference between revisions

According to [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002379 this] and [[wp:Alan_Mills_%28music%29|this]] and [[wp:There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly|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. --[[User:Paddy3118|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. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 13:25, 16 August 2011 (UTC)