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Ok, you've probably all seen it already but this animation from JibJab is so brilliant the Dutch 8 o'clock NOS news showed the entire animation yesterday and rightly so. Kinda sums up the campaigns quite nicely imo.

Since there is an international and political aspect and it isn't limited to one candidate I figured I'd post it here.

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discussing things as they are set to be
Said one to the other, now listen you two
there's a strange rumor that can't be true
they say man was descended from our noble race
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no monkey ever deserted his wife
or her baby to ruin their lives.
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Hiz Highness

That is friggin' awesome!

-HH

Plainsman1963

Yep. Made CNN and others.

At least they got equal time.

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SacredJellybean

Ahahahahaha!! I'd never seen this before... I love it!

MickityMike

Not only is it funny, solutions, but it's also a lot closer to the truth than many of us will want to admit.

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PsYcHoLoGiCaL

JibJab, the creators of this parody are being threatened with a copyright lawsuit by of Ludlow Music, Inc, which owns the copyright to "This land is your land". This is absurd; clearly this cartoon is protected as a political parody.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/26/comm...stler/wastler/

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Niteshift

I watched it and thought it was funny.

And I think Ludlow music is being stupid.

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Mamabudz

Funny --

I think Ludlow music has a VERY valid point.

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The ability to secure intellectual property from being bastardized, stolen, misused, altered, pornagraphed, and perjured is a tangible right to an intelligible property, such as Music.

Copyright, the time during which control over that intangible, lasts for approximately 150+ years (a specific statutorily provided time, which changes periodically with changes in the law + "a life in being" to whome the copyright is attached). After that time it is Public Domain.

Ludlow music has the obligation to enforce that music for which it holds repsonsibility, is not used without permission and that it is not misued, or used in a manner not accordingly to the wishes and belief of the copyright owner and his family.

That is called protection of property rights.

What JibJab did was called stealing.

While it might be cute and funny, from a legal standpoint, it's a criminal act and breaking Federal Law that is accepted under International Law under International Copyright Treaties.

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Not to say the piece isn't funny or doesn't make a point --- Just think restitution should be forthcoming and there is a valid case.

Just sort of FYI

Hugz,

Mama Budz

Cassius

I disagree completely. Every parody "steals" a copyrighted work and distorts its original meaning -- usually to make someone laugh.

All the bands/musicians/artists that Weird Al Yankovic has parodied have just as much right to sue as Ludlow Music. And just as much right to lose.

Coolio (ok, even I can't believe I'm defending him, but still) had an intended message with Gangsta's Paradise. It was a quite serious message, from the perspective of the original song -- you don't hear anyone laughing. Amish Paradise completely distorts that, just as this new parody completely distorts the original serious meaning of This Land is Your Land.

An icon of Americana or not, This Land is Your Land or any other copyrighted work has GOT to be allowed to be parodied; it's as important a first amendment right as the one possessed by the artist that wrote the original.

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Plainsman1963

And....Coolio did not give Weird Al permission when he was asked. He said "no".
Weird Al did it anyway. If it didn't fall under "parody" and the fair use exemption, I imagine as ticked as Coolio was, he would have gotten it stopped.

I think fighting over this is just more money for the lawyers and will actually keep it in the public eye longer than if you just let it die a natural death.