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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
Very funny but I hope Bob Dylan's copyright was respected  . |
Funny you should mention that. These guys are not new to the political musical video scene. They achieved viral fame four years ago when Kerry ran against Bush with a hilarious sendup of "This Land is Your Land," and got sued by the publisher who holds the copyright to Woody Guthrie's work (despite a very nice letter from Arlo Guthrie). According to
Wikipedia, JibJab and Ludlow Music reached a settlement after JibJab's attorneys unearthed evidence that the song had passed into the public domain in 1973. But it seems likely that JibJab's use of the tunes of these songs is protected by the parody aspect of "fair use," given how many of them they've made by this point.