Tuesday, July 6, 2010
WORSE THAN A VEGEMITE SANDWICH: The flute solo in Men at Work's "Down Under" has been deemed a copyright infringement by Australian courts. The infringed work? "Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree." (And a YouTube purporting to show the ripoff.) I will say that my first thought upon hearing the story was surprise that "Kookaburra" is not in the public domain, and my second thought was that while I hadn't noticed it before, there is a striking similarity in the flute solo.
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