It seems that Woody Guthrie had a bit of a different view on copyright: written by 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.” Isn’t that what creating art is all about? Sharing the art with the world? Hmmm… [via BoingBoing]
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i have no copyright on my site. anyone who has ever wanted to use anything asks and always gives me credit.