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JibJab's "This Land is Your Land"

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<a href="http://www.jibjab.com/">This Land is Your Land</a> is <i>good</i> Flash; Flash put to a better purpose than burning out your retinas with advertising. It's a parody of the Woody Guthrie song that rips Bush, Kerry, the US Media, US consumerism (the part with the Native American and the Walmarts popping up like mushrooms was funny). Check it out for a good laugh. If you have trouble downloading it, try it here at <a href="{att_link}this_land.swf">The Land is Your Land (local copy)</a>. They, of course, have a little copyright infringement thing with the owners of Guthrie's music going on. You see, though Guthrie's original copyright for most of the lyrics to his songs read: <bq>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.</bq> ...now that he's dead, a company has purchased the copyrights, several companies have paid, over the years, for Congress to extend copyrights until the end of time as we know it, and a song written by someone almost 30 years dead is still not in the public domain. Remember how copyrights used to be to help content creators earn enough from their creations to keep creating? How is a dead Woody Guthrie creating less music due to derivative works? If it was Tupac, I'd understand.