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You are too young to know this
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 12:20 PM EDT
You are too young to know this, being born in the era of Mickey Mouse, but once
upon a time copyrights expired and then the works fell into the public domain.

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9 lines
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 12:28 PM EDT
Lewis Carrol died in 1898. If I recall correctly the oldest copyrights that
haven't expired were issued in the early twentieth century, so Google should be
safe.

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Infringer's Profits!
Authored by: jbb on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 01:18 PM EDT
Since those 9 lines were used to stave off a billion dollar law suit, the Charles Dodgson estate is owed billions of dollars. BS&F is rushing a team to Surrey, England in order to attempt exhumation and revivification. A spokesman explained that this novel maneuver is the courtroom equivalent of a credit default swap.

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Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay

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Through the Looking Glass
Authored by: Chromatix on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 01:23 PM EDT
Looking more carefully, I see they have actually quoted from one of the books that is already in evidence, which quotes from the classic work of literature - I assume, as part of a chapter heading.

Nicely done, Google.

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