“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.” – Woody Guthrie
Such is the irony of the message you get when you click on the YouTube clip of Pete Seeger singing “This Land is Your Land” yesterday:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Home Box Office, Inc.
Un-frickin-believable.