This Land is...

[fafner]

It looks like some people do not find this funny
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/27/22212...&tid=95&tid=103

[ozfiz]

i've come to realise that there is always someone out there who goes against things.
pffftttt... to them. i'll like what i wanna like.

like my friends who laugh when i say i like astro.

[dannavy85]

LOL! I couldn't stop laughing after it was over. We need such non-bias comedy in this election year.

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by fafner@Jul 28 2004, 02:33 AM
It looks like some people do not find this funny
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/27/22212...&tid=95&tid=103

I would hate to see the day when parody becomes illegal. Mad Magazine, National Lampoon & SNL would all be in trouble. Besides that, jibjab does not make people pay to see it. I do not think the plaintiffs have a case here.

[jeffbert]

I had not thought about the distinction between parody & satire until now. The link had some interesting discussions.

[fafner]

Originally posted by jeffbert@Jul 28 2004, 06:17 PM
I had not thought about the distinction between parody & satire until now. The link had some interesting discussions.

I hadn't either, although the difference is obvious once spotted, as many other things
And in the link I saw that the exact point was that it had made ridiculed a cultural song, so that's what the plaintif say...
But if that's the case all parodies should be outlawed No way ! :angry: A large part of our culture would be lost

[fafner]

Jibjab strikes back :wahah:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/31/20102...tid=123&tid=153

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by fafner@Jul 31 2004, 05:02 PM
Jibjab strikes back :wahah:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/31/20102...tid=123&tid=153

While I enjoy the thing, I wonder if there ought to be a verdict in favor of Guthrie song. I say this because it is quite apparent that the song is not parodied, but rather it is used as a vehicle for the satire of the candidates, & as such should not be protected as parody. However, being a fan of talk radio for quite some time, I know of a great many other songs that have suffered likewise. I have never heard of any lawsuits about those, though, and they were one-sided, while This Land clearly pokes fun at both sides.

In fact, I believe the guys who made the satirical songs for Rush Limbaugh actually sell them on CDs, thus making a buck on their own versions of other people's songs. Here are the lyrics to two anti-Ted Kennedy songs as examples, here is Paul Shanklin's website that has CDs for sale, and some online samples available. Now, if all these songs are subject to political use that attacks certain people, from Bill Clinton to Al Sharpton, and I do not believe any royalties were paid to the original artists and there are quite a few of them, why do the guys holding Guthrie's copyright expect to win?

[fafner]

Jibjab has won the lawsuit
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/25/14162...?tid=123&tid=17

[Strange Wings]

Since I heard that song I can't get it out of my mind anymore .
"This land is your land, this land is my land..." keeps following me day after day.

That video's style reminds me very much on South Park.