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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-07-04 07:41 AM
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This land is made for you and me (to sue each other on!!)
http://www.filmrot.com/geeklinks/004877.php

And I thought the "This Land" song was in the public domain...

More fucking copyright bullshit. x(
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-07-04 07:51 AM
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1. do you think ol`e woody
would have given a shit?
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-07-04 09:07 AM
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3. No way
He always encouraged anybody to play any of his songs. And he made new versions of old songs constantly.
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-07-04 08:42 AM
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2. Haven't the courts always upheld
The right to parody?

TlalocW
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IronLionZion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-07-04 09:09 AM
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4. yes but supposedly they took it too far
or some shit like that. There's only so much of a song you can use. That's why Weird Al gets away with it.
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SheilaT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-07-04 10:44 AM
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5. Changes in copyright laws
have kept things under copyright protection much longer than formerly. I believe the song "Happy Birthday" is still under copyright, something very few people are aware of.
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