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	JibJab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the 2004 presidential election, JibJab created a Flash movie entitled This Land, which featured a parody of Woody Guthrie's song "This Land is Your Land", sung by animated caricatures of George W. Bush and John Kerry.
		JibJab and Ludlow Music reached a settlement after JibJab's attorneys unearthed evidence that the song had passed into the public domain in 1973.
		Jibjab introduced a new feature which allows members (who can sign up for free) to compile and view written, video, or photo "jokes" and store them in their own "jokebox".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/JibJab (1063 words)

	JibJab beats copyright rap \| CNET News.com
		JibJab responded with a lawsuit in California federal court seeking a ruling that the film's use of the Guthrie tune was protected under fair use.
		LiCalsi also said the JibJab movie does not technically classify as a parody of "This Land." In order to qualify legally as a parody of the song, LiCalsi said, the new material must comment on or criticize the ideas represented by the original property.
		JibJab's lone server was at one point crushed by the torrent of activity, according to the company.
	news.com.com /JibJab+beats+copyright+rap/2100-1026_3-5322970.html (712 words)

	This Song Is Our Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But while about 25 million viewers have been clogging JibJab to chuckle at the film's South Park-like Flash animation and juvenile insults (Bush labels Kerry a "liberal sissy," and Kerry responds by calling Bush a "right-wing nut job"), the Spiridellises aren't exactly laughing their way back to the drawing board.
		JibJab Media, the proper name of the Spiridellises' company, never got permission to use Guthrie's song in This Land, and Ludlow Music is telling them to pull down the short.
		LiCalsi said his client wants to resolve the dispute without filing a lawsuit against JibJab, but if it came down to a courtroom appearance, he would argue the Spiridellises used, without permission, too much of the music and lyrics of the original song in their short.
	www.rense.com /general54/song.htm (1040 words)

	Cold, Hard Flash: JibJab's 2-0-5 Goes Live: Flash animation news and links
		JIBJAB: Back in the summer, we came up with the idea of doing a fast paced year end 'round up' that touched on all the events and issues of the year.
		JIBJAB: Once Gregg and I lay out the whole piece, it is typically me and two to three other artists on the piece full time until it is complete.
		JIBJAB: We were introduced to Jim Meskimen through our attorney, who was a high school friend of Jim's and a long time supporter of his career.
	www.coldhardflash.com /2005/12/jibjabs-2-0-5-goes-live.html (1270 words)

	JibJab back at Bush, but the jokes are a bit dull
		But in "This Land" and "Good to Be in D.C.," the musical parody cartoons that made brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis and their company kings of viral video, JibJab was mocking Bush, Democratic rival John Kerry and Washington, D.C. culture.
		To be sure, having him miss a zero in the year's name is a barb, but it's the same dim-intellect joke Bush is smart enough to make about himself.
		He is allowed to detail events that took place on his watch, but he is never stuck with responsibility for unsuccessful, incomplete or misguided responses to those events.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/pop/articles/0105jibjab0105.html (769 words)

	Wired News: JibJab Is Free for You and Me
		JibJab used the tune to the song and rewrote the lyrics in a cartoon to mock the presidential candidates.
		But in a bizarre twist, JibJab's lawyers discovered that anyone may record their own version of the song -- because the copyright on the words and music have expired, they said.
		JibJab also agreed to donate 20 percent of the net proceeds of the animation to the Woody Guthrie Foundation and link to the original lyrics.
	www.wired.com /news/digiwood/0,1412,64704,00.html (698 words)

	WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Do as I Say, Not as I Do
		The Ludlow Music vs. JibJab case ended not because of any of the above arguments, but because the EFF discovered that the copyright on the Woody's music was never renewed in 1973 and thus had fallen into public domain.
		The original JibJab clips were mocking the president; the clips in the song were used to mock the president.
		The JibJab lawsuit was also based on the fact that the copyright for This Land is Your Land had expired and Ludlow Music had not renewed the copyright in a timely manner therefore JibJab was permitted to use the song since it had been considered legally to be in the public domain.
	blog.wfmu.org /freeform/2005/10/do_as_i_say_not.html (1499 words)

	Chris Rush Cohen: JibJab video: am I to be labeled a flip-flopper?
		I must say, even though several commentators have agreed with me that the JibJab video is a satire, including Lawrence Lessig, I am having doubts about my original position based on the history of the song that interested bloggers and commentors have turned up.
		Ultimately, because of my own suspicions about the post hoc reasoning I am left wondering if the JibJab guys actually used "This Land is our Land" because of it's history and meaning or just because it is a familiar tune with a refrain that worked well for their video...period.
		To suggests the work is a parody one must take the position that the Jib Jab team knew the history and meaning of the song when making their video, even if that knowledge was some sort of background psychology at work in their heads at the time.
	chris-cohen.blogspot.com /2004/07/jibjab-video-am-i-to-be-labeled-flip.html (1456 words)

	JibJab Parodies Make Leap to Wireless - 3/15/2005 - Wireless Week - CA510478 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During the 2004 presidential election, JibJab's 2-minute online animated parody of presidential candidates President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., trading barbs while singing a twisted version of "This Land Is Your Land" became a quick hit on the Internet.
		JibJab is working with Mobliss to get its content distributed via Mobliss' Thumbdance channel.
		Mobliss had a demo of JibJab content on a mobile video phone at the company's Thumbdance Mobile Festival that was held in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival last month in Park City, Utah.
	www.wirelessweek.com /article/CA510478?spacedesc=Departments&stt=001 (519 words)

	EFF: JibJab Media Inc., v. Ludlow Music, Inc.
		JibJab had responded to Ludlow's threats by engaging the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to file suit on its behalf in San Francisco on July 29, 2004, seeking judicial confirmation that JibJab's work was a protected "fair use" and did not infringe Ludlow's copyrights.
		During the course of investigating the case, EFF learned that "This Land is Your Land," the classic Woody Guthrie song, is part of the public domain and has been for several decades.
		The copyright holder of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" sends cease and desist to JibJab.com for their use of the song in this parody video.
	www.eff.org /legal/cases/JibJab_v_Ludlow (393 words)

	Reason: Jabbing JibJab: Copyright law vs. political satire
		Where Guthrie's song is provocative understatement, JibJab's is merely provocative.
		Where Guthrie's song is one of unity, JibJab's version both mocks and ultimately supports that ideal.
		In a year in which the red/blue divide is frequently debated, Guthrie's call for unity would seem to be ripe for this sort of parody.
	www.reason.com /links/links072904.shtml (889 words)

	MSN to Distribute, Sell Ads for JibJab Films
		Creative studio JibJab Media has hired MSN to distribute, sell ads, and develop product-placement opportunities on five new short films, to be shown on MSN Video and JibJab.com.
		JibJab founders Gregg and Evan Spiridellis will debut their latest short, "Big Box Mart," which parodies super-sized retailers such as Wal-Mart, on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Thursday night.
		"JibJab is rightly recognized as the leader of viral animation videos; its hip irreverence and equal-opportunity parody [are]; a great match for MSN Video," said Todd Herman, director of advertising and business strategy for video, movies, and TV at MSN.
	www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=3556091 (352 words)

	JibJab Inks Ad-Revenue Sharing Partnership with Yahoo!
		While he may be depicted as such in the lastest online video spoof by JibJab Media, the animation makers have partnered with Yahoo in a Christmas season arrangement that has both parties thinking about the ad revenues to come from several million page views.
		For JibJab, the chief benefit is advertising exposure to Yahoo's millions of user, said Gregg Spridellis, the 33-year-old president and co-founder of JibJab Media.
		"When JibJab released 'This Land' in July, they had to partner with AtomShockwave because their server couldn't handle the volume of traffic they were getting," Moloshok said.
	www.clickz.com /news/article.php/3449731 (435 words)

	Popular Narrative
		JibJab (http://www.jibjab.com), a Brooklyn-based digital media company started by two brothers, is still trying to find itself.
		JibJab does considerably better with its interactive musical gadgets, such as "Capitol Ill," featuring a rapping Al Gore and George W. Bush, "Mutha Fofathers," headlined by Revolutionary lyrical gangstas Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, and "24K," a character that you can control the dance movements of to a techno soundtrack.
		JibJab's original content has gotten better, but it still lags behind some of the more inventive and snappy material out there, such as Thugs on Film, Choose Your Own Nightmare, Stain Boy, and other recent digital ventures.
	web.mit.edu /cms.920/www/critiques/jibjab.html (375 words)

	JibJab and Verizon Wireless Team Up With Renowned Comedy Film Director John Landis in The Great Sketch Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		JibJab gave us the opportunity to work with John Landis and is putting us in front of millions of comedy fans – you have to perform in a lot of theaters to get in front of that kind of audience!
		JibJab is a digital comedy network founded by brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis in 1999.
		JibJab is a registered trademark of JibJab Media, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
	prweb.com /releases/2006/10/prweb453005.htm (1034 words)

	The Importance of...: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		JibJab contends that the creation and dissemination of its “This Land” video is a fair use of the Guthrie Composition and therefore, not an infringement of the copyright in that composition.
		JibJab is informed and believes that the copyright on the Guthrie Composition has expired or is invalid.
		JibJab is informed and believes that any copyright held in the Guthrie Composition is extremely limited because the majority of the melody of the Guthrie Composition is a derivative work of a song entitled “When the World’s On Fire” recorded by the Carter Family in 1930, ten years before the Guthrie Composition was written.
	importance.corante.com /archives/jibjab (4783 words)

	Presidential parody draws millions of viewers - ZDNet UK News
		Among the sites outranked by JibJab, a provider of online and broadcast animation, were those operated by some the country's best-known businesses, including soda giant PepsiCo, office supply specialist Staples and hotelier Marriott.
		JibJab's previous online success was a political comedy launched in 2000 that featured Bush and former Vice President Al Gore in a battle of freestyle rappers.
		Spiridellis said JibJab's lone server was at one point crushed by the torrent of activity.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /internet/0,39020369,39163680,00.htm (867 words)

	Infothought: JibJab Lawsuit Outcome and Creating A Copyright Lawsuit Downside
		The outcome here, where the song "This Land Is Your Land", is discovered to arguably be in the public domain, is a rare outcome where a plaintiff now might reasonably wish they'd never brought the case in the first place.
		I'm a bit late to the analysis party on the JibJab lawsuit win.
		This makes the JibJab situation an even better example, since it shows that serious threats, even without a lawsuit, can have a big downside.
	www.sethf.com /infothought/blog/archives/000685.html (345 words)

	The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Parody JibJab Web site settles to keep Woody Guthrie music
		That's the agreement reached between the publishers of Woody Guthrie's classic "This Land is Your Land" and JibJab Media, creators of an animated Internet short that uses the tune in a comic sendup of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaigns.
		In return, JibJab dropped a lawsuit against Ludlow that sought an order saying its use of the song was protected because it was a parody and "This Land" was in the public domain.
		JibJab's lawyers said Ludlow was misinterpreting the law and that the song in the cartoon clearly was a parody.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2002015564_jibjab26.html (378 words)

	Defend JibJab!
		The JibJab brothers -- makers of the hilarious "This Land!" cartoon -- are having legal troubles.
		JibJab is waging a legal battle to keep the cartoon alive.
		I think democrats and republicans can agree that that cartoon is one of the greatest, most hilarious, political parodies ever made.
	www.2020democrats.org /node/258 (181 words)

	Jibjab: See what people are saying right now on Technorati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		JibJab: The Early Years DVD - Buy It Now Get all the cartoon parodies you know and love on one hit DVD.
		If you have no idea what JibJab is, turn the volume up on your computer and start with their original parody cartoon of the 2004 U.S. presidential...
		JibJab Runs Comedy On VCAST 10 20th, 2006 Santa Monica-based JibJab, the venture-funded content startup known for its humorous online parodies, said...
	www.technorati.com /tag/Jibjab (390 words)

	Another jab from JibJab: Bush's '2-0-5' \| CNET News.com
		The late-night TV film debut of "2-0-5" was the fifth for the JibJab brothers since their online short film "This Land," skewering the 2004 presidential candidates, became a huge Internet hit last year.
		Yet JibJab, which recently added its eighth employee, is not exactly a raging commercial success--at least not yet.
		JibJab is something of a pioneer in this area and a creative force to watch as video emerges in a big way on the Web and mobile gadgets, including Apple Computer's new video iPod.
	news.com.com /Another+jab+from+JibJab/2100-1026_3-5997129.html (920 words)

	WebWire® \| JibJab Video Classics And New Releases Available Exclusively To Verizon Wireless V CAST Customers
		JibJab took the online world by storm when its parodies “This Land” and “Good to be in DC!” were seen more than 80 million times during the last Presidential election.
		JibJab created a cultural phenomenon with its parodies and we are excited to offer V CAST customers exclusive access to JibJab content from their wireless phones.”
		JibJab Media is a Santa Monica based creative studio founded by brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis in Brooklyn, NY in 1999.
	www.webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=&aId=12305 (556 words)

	Passing the JibJab presidential test \| Newsmakers \| CNET News.com
		The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company took the Web by storm with its first animated satire about the 2004 presidential race, called "This Land," and garnered additional praise for a second short film, "Good to be in DC," released to the public last week.
		With close to 60 million combined viewings of the two animated satires thus far, the filmmakers appear to have achieved that goal.
		JibJab front man Gregg Spiridellis, 30, who founded the company with his brother Evan, recently spoke with CNET News.com to discuss his company's rise to Web fame and the Internet's burgeoning potential as a tool for creative minds.
	news.com.com /Passing+...+presidential+test/2008-1026_3-5408402.html (2103 words)

	Bud Light Sponsors New JibJab Joke Site
		"JibJab continues to be a leader in the realm of viral humor, and Jokebox is another perfect way to engage adult beer drinkers with social humor and viral content to be shared among friends," said Rick Leininger, director of Bud Light Marketing, Anheuser-Busch, in a statement.
		JibJab was developed by brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, who created the wildly popular "This Land" Internet video that poked fun at presidential contenders George Bush and John Kerry in 2004.
		JibJab and Anheuser-Busch first hooked up in May 2005, when the two teamed to develop online entertainment for Budweiser.
	promomagazine.com /news/budlight_jibjab_042106 (699 words)

	JibJab Inks Anheuser Busch for Viral Videos
		JibJab Media, the creative studio that came to the world's attention with the satiric "This Land" animation, will be working its viral mojo on Anheuser Busch's Budweiser brand.
		The two have agreed for JibJab to produce "multiple pieces over an extended period of time" for Budweiser, according to JibJab co-founder Gregg Spiridellis.
		Over the course of the relationship, JibJab will create two videos, each of 1.5 to 2 minutes in length, with the first being released this summer and the second planned for fall.
	www.clickz.com /news/article.php/3506916 (454 words)

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