This Land Flash Video - Sue You: This Song Is Our Song

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Sue You: This Song Is Our Song

When was the last time you saw John Kerry on his knees before world leaders, clad in S&M gear and with a ball gag in his mouth? Or eyed President Bush looking sheepish in a red dunce cap?

Chances are it was sometime this past week on national TV and maybe 10 times before that on the Internet, thanks to JibJab, a site that is posting animators Evan and Gregg Spiridellis' latest creation, This Land.

The film features Kerry and Bush dissing each other like boys on a playground to the tune of Woody Guthrie's classic song, "This Land Is Your Land." It's made it around the world, with enthusiastic viewers commenting about the film on the site's blog from as far away as the Netherlands, New Zealand and Guam, and its historical value has been noted by the Library of Congress, which on Tuesday e-mailed the Santa Monica, California-based Spiridellises asking to add the animated short to its archives.

But while about 25 million viewers have been clogging JibJab to chuckle at the film's South Park-like Flash animation and juvenile insults (Bush labels Kerry a "liberal sissy," and Kerry responds by calling Bush a "right-wing nut job"), the Spiridellises aren't exactly laughing their way back to the drawing board.

more
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64376,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1


watch This Land here
http://www.jibjab.com/

[Webster Green]

1. What bullshit!

I doubt that Woodie Guthrie would have a problem with them using his song.

[Eric J in MN]

2. I predict this case won't go to court.

Parody is protected by the First Amdendment.

The lawyer for the music publishing company is claiming it's not a parody, but few woud agree.

I think the lawyer was just trying to keep himself busy by writing the cease-and-desist.