Closure on the JibJab "This Land" song case

It's over. The law suit over whether the hilarious "This Land is My Land" Kerry-Bush animation is an illegal rip-off or not.

Apparently, Woody Guthrie published the song in 1945, and did not bother to renew the copyright 28 years later. So it dropped off into the public domain. Yay!

EFF, who served as JibJab's lawyers, made the announcement. And Wired News has a good article about the settlement.