Sing a Song of Sixpence

[snopes]

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.p...html#msg748137

[snopes]

Comment: The material on this site may not be reproduced without
permission.

How is it that dam near everything on your site is copyrighted material
from all over the net and from printed books?and you say non can be
reproduced without your permission.i posted the info from your "The
nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" originated as a coded message used
for recruiting pirates." in a public forum on another site and the admin
took it down saying he got a email from snopes saying the content was
owned by snopes.ources:

Bett, Henry. Nursery Rhymes and Tales: Their Origin and History.
Boston: Folcroft Press, 1924.

Cordingly, David. Under the Black Flag.
New York: Random House, 1995. ISBN 0-679-42560-8.

Doss, Paul. Pirates, Trolls, and Other Villains of the Nursery.
Chicago: SLC Publishing, 1955 (pp. 88-92).

King, Dean. A Sea of Words.
New York: Henry Holt, 1995. ISBN 0-8050-3816-7.

did you get written permission from all those sources to reprint the
copyrighted info on your site?i doupt it.

[snopes]

did you get written permission from all those sources to reprint the
copyrighted info on your site?i doupt it.

The fact that none of those sources is actually quoted or otherwise reprinted in the article itself (and that some of them are non-existent, fictitious sources we made up as in-jokes) isn't relevant, apparently.

- snopes

[Eddylizard]

It seems to have been taken down.

The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you.

Or maybe it's just off limits to me.

[Chloe]

I suspect you can find exactly the same information at http://www.snopes.com/lost/sixpence.htm

[Eddylizard]

Originally Posted by Chloe

I suspect you can find exactly the same information at http://www.snopes.com/lost/sixpence.htm

Yeah, well I guessed that as we are in in 'copyright trap', I was just idly curious as to how much of a rip-off it was. Not that it matters.

[Canuckistan]

Originally Posted by snopes

The fact that none of those sources is actually quoted or otherwise reprinted in the article itself (and that some of them are non-existent, fictitious sources we made up as in-jokes) isn't relevant, apparently.

Even putting that aside, the whole concept of research seems to be lost on this person.

[Just Jocko]

Originally Posted by Canuckistan

Even putting that aside, the whole concept of research seems to be lost on this person.

Researc h? We don't need no stinkin' research!