Jib Jab Update:



Ludlow Music has relinquished the fight to make Jib Jab pay for the rights to Woody Guthrie's "This Land" in their cool political spoof. In exchange, Jib Jab is agreeing to include a link to the original lyrics and "donate" 20% of their profits to the Woody Guthrie Foundation, according to the article. I take this to be simply either a nice gesture or a chance to avoid court costs on the part of the Jib Jab guys: as I blogged earlier, Woody basically lifted the song himself, and even if he hadn't, the 1945 song's copyright had run out when Ludlow failed to renew its registration in 1973 (the term back then was for 28 years).