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Parody or Satire? Threat To Sue JibJab

Posted by timothy on from the ask-roy-orbison dept.

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."

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  1. Hang him! Give him the chair! by MisterLawyer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, sorry, I thought the title said "Threat To Sue JarJar"

  2. Its all about the money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Woody Guthrie on Copyright by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."

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  4. CNN excerpt by ejaw5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. Re:Sold out for a buck by FosterKanig · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!!!!

  6. You can get anything you want . . . by Latent+Heat · · Score: 5, Funny
    So they made me go sit over there on the Group W bench.

    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.