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Parody or Satire? Threat To Sue JibJab
The Importance of writes "Internet multimedia producers JibJab have been getting a lot of attention recently for their version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" that pokes fun at Bush, Kerry and America in general. Now, JibJab is being threatened with a copyright lawsuit by the rights holders. They've already contacted EFF and there is an ongoing debate about whether the flash animation is protected parody or infringing satire."
the "Foo Queue" category.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
My god, something actually VALUABLE was posted to slashdot. What a rare occurance!
I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Oh, sorry, I thought the title said "Threat To Sue JarJar"
These companies don't give a hoot about songs nor artists. They only care about how much money they can make off it.
The music company is just mad because they are not making money from it.
Welcome to the land of corporations.
The song should be renamed: This land is my land, your land is my land.
They don't have to (under the law at least). But they will find it hard to get their recordings distributed and promoted if they don't due to the fact that the record industry doesn't approve of fair use.
That copyright notice sounds like a good legal defense for JibJab. I hope that "This Land is Your Land" was included in that songbook. Of course, the current owners of the copyright will probably claim that Guthrie's notice was a parody of a copyright notice. Or is that a satire?
For us homely normal talkers, ergo ipso facto means "therefore by this fact", or "Latin makes arguements sound smarter".
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
I just have one suggestion to improve the ending.
Nader: "This really sucks."
Perot: "Tell me about it."
Of course, Richard M. Stallman would add a clause to that license agreement since it's not free enough: "... we don't give a dern, so long as you also be providin them lyrics to all othern who be wantin to sing it too."
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/26/commentary/wastler /wastler/
Right now lawyers for both sides are just hurling threatening letters at one another. If the dispute ends up in court, it'll be interesting.
TRO: "You've hurt our music!"
Jibjab: "You've got no humor!"
Both: "This judge will surely side with me!"
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...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.
Woody Guthrie has never heard me sing.
Back when I was grade school, we sang our own version of the song:
This land is my land.
This land ain't your land.
I've got a shotgun
And you ain't got one.
If you don't get off
I'll blow your head off.
This land was made for only me.
Fortunately, the lawyers never showed up at the playground to shut us down.
Woody Guthrie is dead. He cannot be encouraged to keep creating through copyright protection.
You have ZERO proof that his ghost hasn't been trying to break into the record business. It's gotta be better than most of the crap out there.
Willie Nelson Rules!!!!
Just to clarify, Sonny Bono ran his stupid head into a fucking tree and died. He was a fucking genius.
He was a genius at running his head into a tree. Not copyright law. Just the whole "head meets tree" thing. That, he fucking nailed.
There were mother rapers. And there were father rapers! And then the biggest, meanest, father raper of them all, came up to me and asked, "what you do time for, boy?"
And I said "fer violatin a copyright." And they all slid away from me on the Group W bench.
And then I said "and fer addin' obscene words," And they all slid back towards me on the Group W bench.
Dan Quayle! I didn't know you were on Slashdot!
God is real unless declared integer
I`m glad JibJab uses Microsoft, otherwise SCO would own the song.
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ironic?
(please don't sue me!)
woodie guthrie is so trying to climb out of his grave right now.
i speak for myself and those who like what i say.
You's a lyier! All thems people was good old Americans! If your done gonna make them sounds liek intellekturals and libruls and socilaists I'm gona drive up from Texas and kick youur SORRRY ass!
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.