An intriguing update to this post here in which I briefly wrote about the INDUCE act.
The creators of the satirical JibJab.com web site have produced a music video parody of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” featuring George W. Bush and John Kerry. In doing so they may have violated the copyright for the song.
An odd knock-on effect of this is that the TV networks that covered this story in their news reports have encouraged viewers to download the spoof film by providing links to the JibJab website via the online version of the news report. If the video parody is indeed found to be a violation of copyright then these TV networks maybe guilty under the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act (aka INDUCE Act).
The Home Recording Rights Coalition has issued a press release making this very argument.
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