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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. Massive irony here. by jbash · · Score: 1, Redundant
    1. Woody Guthrie didn't give a shit about the copyright law that's designed to make the rich richer. As he wrote on the bottom of his albums: "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." W.G.

    2. No way in hell would Woody Guthrie be a Bush supporter!! He'd most definitely be in the Anybody But Bush camp.