Has there been another reporter to cover JibJab so completely?
From Wired: "Ludlow Music dropped its demands that JibJab, a small web animation site, stop using Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land' in a satirical Flash cartoon. It turned out Ludlow did not own the rights to the song as it claimed, a lawyer representing JibJab said on Tuesday.
Turns out, it's in the public domain.
Go to see the satirical song, which pokes fun at both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, at www.jibjab.com. Our original story is here:
Also, we neglected to point you toward Danny Westneat's column this morning, in which he brings us up to date on the saga of Jim McDermott and the leaked tapes. In 1997, A Florida couple gave him a recorded conversation of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich plotting strategy with Republican allies on his ethics investigation, which he promised not to do. McDermott leaked the tape to three newspapers. He's now in trouble, pleading bad memory.
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