Guthrie Publisher Lets Cartoon Use Song
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LOS ANGELES - This song is my song, this song is your song. That's the agreement reached between the publishers of Woody Guthrie's classic "This Land is Your Land" and JibJab Media, creators of an animated Internet short that uses the tune in a comic sendup of President Bush and Sen...
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These new offerings are the cure for the common kids song.
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Choosing a theme song for a political campaign may sound fun but can produce plenty of sour notes.
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Der Bonker kerfuffle A German satirical cartoon featuring a singing Adolf Hitler in his bunker in 1945, lamenting his fate, has proved an internet hit for illustrator Walter Moers, The Guardian reports.â¦
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Tycho:  Page Two of "In The Service Of The Queen" will be available shortly, as he's taking the process very seriously.  Writing ridiculous poems used to be something I did with much more frequency, though it still happens occasionally. I did, at one point, seize the entire site to host a comic musical about TRON.  The urge just rears up sometimes, swiping at the air with its claws, and I must feed it tender, rhyming couplets to bed it back down.
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Tycho:   It has become the Saturday tradition to do the next strip upon the expo's stark and terrifying stage, but since Armadeaddon needed its proper epilogue it got moved out to Wednesday.  Gabe was highly indulgent of audience suggestions in the final version, far more than he is to me, adding many, many things based on them being called out from the microphone - he has a version with more additions still that he'll be putting up later today.  But there are things in there like the blue ball in the last panel - to say nothing of the official "Hot-Dog Fairy" merchandise! - that began as anecdotes and have now graduated to true PAX lore.
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Fans of U2, Eminem, B.B. King, and Elton John will soon be able to get free songs from those artists, and many more, with the launch of SpiralFrog, a new Web site for music downloads. But there is a catch -- you have to sit through a message from the site's sponsors.
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By Connie Bloom, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Dec. 16--The rabbi wore a dress, the service was projected in PowerPoint and eBay appeared in the lyrics of the Dreidel Song.
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Tycho: This podcast covers the writing process for today's comic (and a number of other tangents). Of course, it's entirely possible you had already subscribed to the feed and are currently listening to it. In which case, I apologize profusely.   (CW)TB
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Seth Godin published a book under a Creative Commons license that allows anyone to republish and sell it. But he was a little surprised when someone actually did.
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Peter Rabbit won a court battle when judges ruled that a Chinese publisher improperly reproduced drawings from the classic British children's story.
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The streaming site offers free tunes from major and indie labels.
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Turns out that Ludlow Music, which claims to own the copyright on a classic Woody Gutherie song, may not actually own it after all. Which means JibJab, a scrappy web animation site, gets to use 'This Land Is Your Land' to its heart's content. By Katie Dean.
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Ludlow Music dropped its demands that JibJab, a small web animation site, stop using Woody Guthrie&#39;s &quot;This Land is Your Land&quot; in a satirical Flash cartoon.
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Hey! What's wrong with our Sharecropping license? A Texan family has been handed a harsh lesson in what the Creative Commons "movement" really means for creatives who use its licenses.â¦
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Getting rights OK'd can be frustrating for artists, be they authors seeking to quote an essay or documentary filmmakers who've got snippets of pop songs playing in the background of key scenes. Artists and scholars who believe the current copyright system unduly stifles creativity are pushing a less restrictive alternative that they call the Creative Commons.
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Industry groups are looking for a way around controversial copyright proposal.