COMPARE! Men At Work sued over DOWN UNDER Kookaburra Girl Guides

FAIR DINKUM MATE! Here's a snip of Men At Work's DOwn Under, a song the entire planet has known for 30 or something years. And here's a snip of the tune from Kookaburra Sits on the Old Gum Tree, written by some little girl guide 70-odd years ago and presented to Lord Baden Powell, probably along with a marshmallow on a stick.

Men At Work have just LOST a lengthy legal battle with Larrikin, the owner of the rights to Marion's song from 1932 and face having to pay 60% of the royalties they earned from it to Larrikin.

What a total and utter JOKE! These guys will be suicidal. They made their living off that song.

A message to the hideous lawyer who came up with the case: Gay your life must be.

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[reedha]

if this is the case, the holder of robert johnsons royalties own the rights to every rock song ever "written"...this is a reggae riff also...should one entity of lawyers own the reggae root song that is the basis of every reggae song you've ever heard???? what a joke...too many lawyers....plus the fact that when the lawyers get involved in these cases, the artists are never compensated anyway, just the bloodsucking lawyers....go to law school everyone!!!!

[LordInksworth]

@reedha NO way - this is a direct copy of the parts of the original song. I don't like money-grabbing lawyers, but they are in the right here. Law is law.

[LordInksworth]

Have a look at the Men At Work video for Down Under. Look at the flute player. Whenn he plays the parts where the melody EXACTLY COPIES the parts of the Kookaburra song (ie "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree" and "merry merry king of the bush is he") nnotice where the flute player plays these melodies: Where is he? HE'S SITTING IN AN OLD GUM TREE, way up there in the branches, playing the famous melody. They KNEW what it was but didn't imagine it could one day spell trouble for them.

[MsAussie83]

I made a comment on this 2 months ago, and I just now noticed that somebody somewhere along the line flagged it as spam. Is there any particular reason why they did this? I know I didn't say anything offensive.

[LordInksworth]

@MsAussie83 I un-spammed your post. No idea how that happened.

[CALLEJAGROOVE]

If Men at Work commited a crime, all blues songs , all metal songs, all colombian vallenato and cumbia songs, all mexican corridos and all rock n roll songs must be prosecuted.

[Sonicrega]

@PortAdelaideFCDVDs

Wow...i didn't know people could be so damn tone deaf...

[LeewardFate]

bullshit!



[youdave777]

@BigCrookster yep: the blues!

[TheKcirtap1]

Fucking chea

[marially3]

This is ridiculous

[fvm78]

` ` ` THE DAY WILL COME (if it hasn't already) when ANY set of notes played will be plagerised. ` What happens then? THERE WILL BE NO MORE NEW MUSIC. ` ''When the musics over, turn out the lights.'' ` `