tamarisk
July 29th, 2004, 05:25 AM
An animated parody of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry set to the tune of 'This Land Is Your Land' has everyone laughing except the owners of Woody Guthrie's copyrights. By Rachel Metz.
Full Article (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64376,00.html)
notbob
July 29th, 2004, 08:30 AM
it's a derivative, and a parody
it's safe under fair use
Jelsoft
July 29th, 2004, 08:50 AM
It's another sad day in America if JibJab lost the case.
Lord_of_the_Dense
July 29th, 2004, 09:11 AM
Yeah. Just another Outkast scenario. What happened to free spee..
Afn
July 29th, 2004, 11:14 AM
According to various Internet sources, including the website of the Museum of Musical Instruments (http://www.themomi.com/museum/Guthrie/index_1024.html) in Santa Cruz, California, Guthrie allegedly wrote, "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."
Wired is so afraid of legal action they wrote "Guthrie allegedly wrote", Guthrie DID write it in a black book. This is interesting because the big media corporations want information locked away and only seen or heard if you have the permission, or pay a fee to access the said material, even if it is not in the wishes of the original author.
It is wrong and the people know it. Decentralized information will put an end to intellectual property hording and restore the just balence.