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JIMINY CRICKET! WHAT DID THEY DO TO THAT SONG? Thursday, October 4 2007 The music publishing house Bourne Co. has sued 20th Century Fox, Fox Broadcasting, the Cartoon Network and others over a parody of "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Disney's Pinocchio, which won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1940. Bourne claims that the parody, sung for a 2000 episode of Fox's The Family Guy, included anti-Semitic phrases that led to the episode's being yanked from the air. However, according to the lawsuit, more (more) RECORD COMPANIES SLASH BUDGETS FOR MUSIC VIDEOS Friday, September 7 2007 
With
the
recording
industry
continuing
to
grapple
with
falling
sales
and
Internet
piracy,
record
companies
are
dramatically
reducing
their
budgets
for
music
videos,
assuming
that
most
of
them
will
be
accessed
from
YouTube
and
other
video-sharing
websites
and
watched
on
laptops
and
video
iPods
rather
than
on
big
TV
screens,
the
Associated
Press
observed
Thursday.
Award-winning
music
video
director
Samuel
Bayer
told
A.P.
that
his
recent
video,
"What
Goes
Around
...
Comes
Around,"
with
Justin
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