Posted
7/27/2004 09:08:00 PM
by Douglas
Just when you think you can have a little
fun with a classic song, someone's got to go and get all
legal on your ass: [warning: it takes
forever to download with dialup]
You know the Jibjab thing I'm talking about, right? The flash animation movie swirling around the Internet with President George Bush and Senator John Kerry singing to the tune of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."
The bit is hilarious. Unless you are The Richmond Organization, a music publisher that owns the copyright to Guthrie's tune through its Ludlow Music unit.
"This puts a completely different spin on the song," said Kathryn Ostien, director of copyright licensing for the publisher. "The damage to the song is huge."
It is hillarious. Them folks need to lighten up.