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Henry Jenkins blogs in on MIT Tech Review's blog with a concise and cogent commentary on the mini-flap over This Land, a decent parody of the current political sniping. Seems that some imbecile at Ludlow Music is trying to claim ownership of the words and music to "This Land is Your Land". Woodie's either spinning in his grave or laughing mightily. Can't quite figure out which. Corante has a partial transcript of an interview with Arlo in which the latter says that his dad would have "loved the humor in it." So there you go. The EFF has pointed out that Guthrie lifted the tune for "This Land" from an older Carter Family song. They have a short MP3 clip on their site to prove their point. EFF is now filing suit on behalf of JibJab asking for a preemptive declaration. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001779.php |