<Li> American country artist Sam Hunt covered the song for Bright: The Album, the soundtrack to the 2017 film, Bright . </Li> <P> On the typescript submitted for copyright of "This Land Is Your Land", Guthrie wrote: </P> <P> "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 ." Currently a number of different organizations claim copyright for the song . According to the Carter Family, the melody came from a tune that A.P. Carter had found and recorded with Sarah and Maybelle Carter prior to 1934 and was not original to Guthrie . </P> <P> In 2004, the website JibJab hosted a parody of the song, with John Kerry and George W. Bush singing altered lyrics to comment on the US 2004 Presidential election, resulting in The Richmond Organization, a music publisher that owns the copyright to Guthrie's tune through its Ludlow Music unit, threatening legal action . </P>

This land is my land this land is not your land