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JibJab Wins - 'This Land' is Public Domain
The Importance of writes "JibJab, creators of the hilarious parody of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land is Your Land' featuring Pres. Bush and Sen. Kerry, were first threatened with a lawsuit and then, with the help of EFF, went to court first in a pre-emptive strike. Well, EFF discovered that the song has actually been in the public domain since 1973 because it was first published in a songbook [PDF] in 1945 and the copyright was never renewed. The case has now been settled. Here are some addtional links."
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I think the first time I saw in-game advertising must have been playing SuperFrog og my beloved Amiga. He ran around drinking Gatorade IIRC.
...it would be cheapened if they played a video parodying it constantly on MTV.
MTV plays videos? It must be nice to live in your country.
In the U.S. of A., MTV (Music Television) doesn't play music. Just crappy pre-scripted "reality" shows. VH1 used to be the only place you could see music videos (the slogan was even "Music First"). Now they're all full of game shows, and bogus "documentaries." Then all that was left was MTV2. But even recently I've noticed they're picking up the MTV show leftovers.
So, where to get videos? Several years ago I had a cable system that carried MuchMusic, and that had videos. But my current setup doesn't offer it. Guess I'll have to download them off some P2P server.
MTV made me a criminal.
World's tallest building rises in the desert
I was surprised to see so many Amishes, Amish lovers or just plain rude people here on Slashdot. Let me elaborate on my point to clear the confusion.
1. Amish society is not sustainable. They use a lot of producs developed outside of their economy. Their ability to buy them is simply a result of imbalance in market pricing. Furthermore, they do contribute to global warming, pollution, depletion of natural resources, etc.
2. What a nice society of religious retards they are who stop education after 8 years and forsake human knowledge for the fucking bible.
3. I didn't mean to say that individual Amish are bad and individual people in the rest of America (world) are good. The comment applied strictly to societies.
4. There was in fact a lot of progress in the world. By most indicators the progress was and is happening. Life in a modern society on average is much better than life in industrial society which in turn is better than life in feudal society, etc. Particular problems that your particular modern society has (like lotsa fat and TV) do not invalidate this general observation.
5. Technology can and will solve the near-term problem of sustainability. I though you'd knew that by now. Nanotechnology and fusion are just two words that you must have heard.
6. Living in a sustainable society is not progress (or moving forward). At best it is staying where you are, at worst - slow degradation.
7. Amish are not fully human. Nowdays anyone who stops their education after 8 years is less than a fully developed intelligent human. So I have little respect for the average Amish.
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