This Song is Whose Song?
Woody Guthrie lifted the melody to "This Land Is Your Land" from another song. Now, his executors are threatening legal action over a parody. Where's the love?
posted by ronsbell @ 7:36 AM
Instaplaudits
New and noteworthy links on other people's web sites. This is the link blog for Bear Left On Unnamed Road, which contains MY full text posts. It is distributed to Bear Left through an RSS feed.
Monday, August 02, 2004
About Me
- Name: ronsbell
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
As a child, I showed so much literary promise that my teachers encouraged me to write early and often—usually, long after-school essays on topics such as "Why I will not yell in class." The writing bug stuck. During college at UCLA in the 1980s, I served as editor-in chief of the campus daily and as a campus correspondent for The New York Times. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, I wrote a regular column about internet law for the American Bar Association's Computer Litigation Journal, a publication that I also eventually ended up editing. (Just call me a glutton for punishment.) This blog is my latest creative outlet and expresses my personal ideas of the moment. Tag along if you're morbidly curious about why I do not yell in class.
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