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so everyone and their grandmother has seen jib-jab's flash this land which mocks both bush and kerry in the grand tradition of political satarists... who learned flash :) which i suppose isn't so much of a tradition, but not the point. the flash rewrites the lyrics to the near-standard song "this land... is your land, this land is my land, from california to the new york island..." that we all learned to sing in elementary school. well, the author of the song didn't like the parody, and wasn't too happy with jib-jab and threatened to sue for willfull copyright infringement... and the EFF and others felt that was just taking things a few dozen steps too far. so they preemptively sued, asking a judge to declare that jib-jab's parody fell into the fair use category of copyright law (which it obviously does).



i just want to say: good. please support the eff and jib-jab, and read all about the case here at wired. too many copyright holders have been demanding rights they aren't afforded by those copyrights and need to be reminded that fair use exists should continue to exist.