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==="This Land"=== For the [[2004 United States presidential election]], JibJab created a Flash movie entitled "This Land", released on July 9, 2004, which featured animated versions of [[George W. Bush]] and [[John Kerry]]<ref>{{cite web|date=November 16, 2011|title=The Complete Lyrics of JibJab's "This Land" Parody / Travis' Column: Hot Off the Presses|url=http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/column/jibjab_this_land_lyrics.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502004907/http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/column/jibjab_this_land_lyrics.html|archive-date=May 2, 2009|access-date=May 2, 2012|publisher=Hopstudios.com|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|date=July 9, 2004|title=This Land | Funny Video Animation by JibJab|url=http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/this_land|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204201652/http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/this_land|archive-date=2009-02-04|access-date=2011-03-27|website=JibJab|publisher=Sendables.jibjab.com}}</ref> - voiced by comedian [[Jim Meskimen]] - singing a [[parody]] of [[Woody Guthrie]]'s song "[[This Land Is Your Land]]". The video was an instant success, eventually being viewed all over the world, as well as the [[International Space Station]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name="abcnews1">{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=369362&page=1 |title=People of the Year: Spiridellis Brothers| date=7 January 2006 |website=ABC News}}</ref> The traffic surge forced JibJab's server to be shut down after one day, and the clip was placed on [[AtomFilms]], where it got more than 1 million hits in 24 hours.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/maney/2004-07-27-jibjab_x.htm |title=USATODAY.com - This Net was made for you and me and the rest of the world |website=www.usatoday.com}}</ref> After being linked to on thousands of websites, the video was featured several times in the printed media and on television, including ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'', [[Fox News]] and ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]''. On July 26, 2004, the creators appeared on ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]''. In December 2004, the Spiridellis brothers were named People of the Year by [[Peter Jennings]].<ref name="abcnews1"/> [[Howie Richmond|The Richmond Organization]], a music publisher that owns the copyright to Guthrie's tune through its Ludlow Music Unit, threatened legal action.<ref>Wired News (August 8, 2004)[https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/08/64428] CNN Money (July 26, 2004) [https://money.cnn.com/2004/07/26/commentary/wastler/wastler/]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-07-01 |title=JibJab Media v. Ludlow Music ("This Land"Parody) |url=https://www.eff.org/cases/jibjab-media-inc-v-ludlow-music-inc |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=Electronic Frontier Foundation |language=en}}</ref> JibJab responded with a lawsuit in a California federal court, claiming the song was protected under a [[fair use]] exemption for parodies. JibJab and Ludlow Music reached a settlement after JibJab's attorneys unearthed evidence that the song had passed into the [[public domain]] in 1973. The terms of the settlement allowed for the continued distribution of ''This Land''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.cnet.com/JibJab-beats-copyright-rap/2100-1026_3-5322970.html|title=JibJab beats copyright rap}}</ref>
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