Guthrie Publisher Lets Cartoon Use Song
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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. John Kerry's presidential campaigns.
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Musician intends to win back control of his copyright on the Web.
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These new offerings are the cure for the common kids song.
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OpenSong is a free software application for managing chords and lyrics sheets (lead sheets), presenting lyrics (and custom slides) using a projector, and much more! Great for worship leaders and musicians! This next release contains quite a few bug fixes, set list printing, proxy support, module loading, a new background image chooser, backgrounds folders, songs folders, multiple themes per song, key field, aka field, key line field, ccli import now imports the new song fields, configurable alert font, live scripture browsing during presentations, HTML song export, and more! Everything has been moved around and optimized. Now with multiple language support. This is a great update to 0.9.8.   You can find the latest release here:  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108754&package_id=117409
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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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It sounds like the setup for a joke: a law firm picks a fight with a legal blogger over the leak of an internal song celebrating â well, itself.
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A battle over copyright infringement on the Internet heats up. No, not over music. Over the classic 'Gone With the Wind.'
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This company's new owner should be whistling a happy tune.
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A creative clip titled "Here Comes Another Bubble" gets popped due to a copyright claim from an unnamed third party.
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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:  I'm super depressed.  I thought I had invented a new word - mirthquake - and then I was going to say that you should prepare yourselves for the aforementioned, as today's comic strip was rated this or that number on the rictus scale.  I mean seriously, I've been excited all weekend.  A simple Google search put me in my place - the word is practically ubiquitous.  Expect it soon on Urban Dictionary, that mausoleum of once vibrant language.
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Copyright holders say reply is 'not satisfactory,' but are willing to keep working on a solution.
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Terms and Conditions of Music And Lyrics.
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Another book publisher makes inroads toward the digital side of content.
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How much should people be able to quote from, remix, and reuse copyrighted material?
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More than 4,500 recording artists sign a newspaper advert calling for an extension of sound recordings copyright.
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Disney has prospered by keeping an extra-tight leash on its animated critters. So why is it permitting YouTube videos that turn Bambi, Simba and Winnie the Pooh into rappers?