Update: 10-13-2005
Quick Update - JibJab Legal Perspective
Brian W. Carver of The Berkeley
Intellectual Property Web Blog has written an interesting
legal perspective concerning the video "George Bush Doesn't
Care About Black People." View it Here
Update: 10-07-2005
GBDCABP hits LFF 10
"George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"
will be screened at this weekends Lost
Film Festival in Philadelphia. The other GBDCABP video
by Frank Lopez
will also be screened. Please Check the Lost
Film Festival website for screening times.
Update: 10-04-2005
Jib can Jab, but TBL has the Legendary K.O.
Unfortunately the people over at JibJab
felt that the usage of clips from their animation 'This Land'
was a copyright violation. They state that they don't "sanction
the use of their original work to further any political
agenda."
Their lawyers sent me a cease and desist letter demanding
me to stop distributing the video. I find the whole situation
ironic considering the history of JibJab's "This Land" animation.
I guess the fair-use doctrine only applies to a elite few.
No Fret.... I've re-edited the video sans the "infringing"
clips. The new edit should be streaming now, the downloads
should be accessible as well! Big thanks to David from TooStupidToBePresident.com
who offered up replacement clips.
Update: 9-29-2005
Attention All,
Unfortunately I'm forced to remove the video
"George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" from this site
and other sites over which I have authority to do so. I will
also ask that others whom are distributing the video to stop
doing so until further notice. I will be sending a written
request to each of those individuals/organizations that I'm
aware of. I'd rather not elaborate on the reasons for this
action at this time, however I will make a statement concerning
the situation in the near future.
Update: 9-26-2005
So I royally messed things up around here trying
to get a MPEG versions up. Things should be back to normal...
I hope!
There have been a few request for DVD's and the likes. We'll
now they are available too! However, I am limiting them to
Verifiable media outlets because of the costs and time associated
with producing and shipping them. Contact me with your request
at info@theblacklantern.com.
Everyone else, if you must have the DVD, i will be posting
the image files as well as an MPEG version so that ANYONE
can burn their own copy. Please allow me a day or two to get
this setup.
Update: 9-16-2005
Hosting situation is under control! Yay! Below can now find
downloadable torrent files (thanks Landis), so please download
and seed.
Update: 9-16-2005
Alright, today I received a email from my web space
provider stating that I am about to exceed my bandwidth limit.
So I removed the files so that this page will still be accessible.
I expected this, but not within a 48 hour time period. Sweetness!
However, I would like as many people as possible to see the
video, so I am asking those who have downloaded the video
to post it wherever possible on the internet, try and let
me know where. If you have a website with excess space/ bandwidth
and wouldn't mind hosting the videos, please email
me.
Update: 9-14-2005
Today I completed the music video for the song "George
Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" by The
Legendary K.O. I don't know much at all about this group
and this is the first song I've heard from them, but it definitely
moved me enough to produce this music video. Check it out
below.
This site is the future home to my online portfolio, more
videos are soon to come. (tbl)
