News JibJab beats copyright rap

This copyright is not your copyright... This from news.com:

A music company claiming to own the rights to Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" may have gotten more than it bargained for when it took on JibJab Media, the Web animators behind a wildly popular parody of the U.S. presidential campaign.

The animators on Tuesday beat back copyright infringement charges leveled at their work, which was based on the tune. Attorneys for the company also said they had found evidence that the copyright on Guthrie's song expired in 1973, meaning that anyone can use it for free.

"This song belongs to you and me," quipped Fred von Lohmann, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defended JibJab in the case.

More here