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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
JibberJabberThe fuckwits who own rights to Woody Guthrie's anthem-worthy song, "This Land is Your Land," want to sue JibJab for their Bush-Kerry cartoon. Kevin Roderick at L.A. Observed quotes from Guthrie's own standard copyright notice:
"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
Larry Lessig explains why the song publishers might actually win, and adds:
Does a law that makes a political parody such as Jibjab illegal (even if it is not a “parody” in the copyright view of the world) make sense?
(Note to citizens: We’re permitted to change the law.)
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
12:21 AM
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