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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. Threats? by valkraider · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Now, JibJab is being threatened with ...

    I think that NOW JibJab is being threatend with a Slashdotting...

    The first time I have seen a site Slashdotted before the first Slashdot post!

  2. Re:Sold out for a buck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant


    Re:Sold out for a buck (Score:1)
    by Archangel Michael (180766) on Tuesday July 27, @07:17PM (#9817053)

    That doesn't matter. Sold out means sold out. The value of selling at the time was measured, not the future.

    If you sell me a house today, and the law changes tomorrow in a way that seriously benifits me for that house, you cannot complain that you were ripped off or otherwise complain that it wasn't a fair deal. You sold out to me, the deal is done.

    But I can see that you are a whiney little coward, who thinks one should not be held accountable for ANY adverse reprocussions for one's bad decisions.

    The world is NOT fair, never was, never will be. Quit trying to make it fair, because you only make it worse.

    Then you should be familiar what your namesake would do in this situation, or is your nic a shallow attempt at slashdot coolness?

  3. 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.