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Jul. 27th, 2004 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyThis is getting posted all over th' place, might as well put it up here. But it's mostly because I know more than a few folks interested in Intelectual Property Law.
An interesting copyright case:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001765.php
Two brothers that created a parody of "This Land is Your Land" are being threatened with a lawsuit by the current owners of the song's copyright.
Written by Woodie Guthrie, the original copyright states:
So if copyright exists to protect the interests of the author ...
(in the course of reading about IP, i found this cool site, http://www.chillingeffects.org/ that helps small web content authors threatened by big corporate legal strongarm tactics...)
An interesting copyright case:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001765.php
Two brothers that created a parody of "This Land is Your Land" are being threatened with a lawsuit by the current owners of the song's copyright.
Written by Woodie Guthrie, the original copyright states:
"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."
So if copyright exists to protect the interests of the author ...
(in the course of reading about IP, i found this cool site, http://www.chillingeffects.org/ that helps small web content authors threatened by big corporate legal strongarm tactics...)
