Have you seen the
JibJab flash movie making fun of Bush and Kerry? It's a hilarious piece of satire which riducules them equally without taking sides. The song is based on a Woody Guthrie classic "This Land is Your Land", and the
publisher is not amused - They have threatened to sue the Spiridellis brothers for 'corrupting' the classic. It's ironic when the copyright holders are not the original artists themselves and they want to retain complete control over the work, beyond what the artist himself/herself intended. Guess what Guthrie had to say about his work:
"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."
Oh yes, there are
new pictures :-)
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