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Tuesday, June 18, 2002

Guthrie on Copyright "Pete Seeger describes his predecessor (Thanks, Misha!) Woody Guthrie's view on copyright: Pete Seeger, June 1967: When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs, On the bottom of one page appeared the following: '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.' W.G." [Boing Boing] [The Shifted Librarian] 9:21:27 AM      comment []