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7.28.2004
You've Been Induced!
I love this story so much, I keep coming back to it.
Remember the INDUCE Act? Well, so did the Home Recording Rights Coalition. So when the current owners of the copyright to Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" claimed that the now-infamous JibJab cartoon featuring President Bush and John Kerry violated that copyright by using the song without permission, the HRRC issued a press release pointing out that every national television network that ran a story on the cartoon probably "induced" thousands more people to seek out and download the "infringing" cartoon, and under the INDUCE Act would be liable for each violation. Thus, one could assume, were the act to be in effect today, the liability from its enforcement in this instance might potentially bankrupt the entire national news media out of business entirely. Ooops. Tell me again that there's a good reason for this law to pass. I dare you.
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