[Ads-l] Happy Birthday published in 1922, so out of copyright?

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From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> 
Date: 08/04/2015  9:35 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
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Subject: Re: Happy Birthday published in 1922, so out of copyright? 
 
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Subject:      Re: Happy Birthday published in 1922, so out of copyright?
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On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> U. of Texas linguist Archibald A. Hill (1902-1992)


In 1958, I wrote to him to ask what the requirements were for membership in
the Society. His reply:

"The sole requirement for membership in the Linguistic Society of America
is an interest in language."
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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