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Strewth mate - thats a bit harsh

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    Strewth mate - thats a bit harsh

    Men at Work to lose 60% of the songs income, because ONE riff is said to be a copy.

    G'day not


    here are the lyrics, with my interpretation underneath


    Traveling in a fried-out combie
    Driving around in a beat-up mini van
    On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
    On a Back-packing trip, hung over and spaced out
    I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
    Met Pogle
    She took me in and gave me breakfast
    we sh@gged all night
    And she said,

    "Do you come from a land down under?
    Are you from Australia
    Where women glow and men plunder?
    Where women are cute and men are rude
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover."

    Buying bread from a man in Brussels
    He was six foot four and full of muscles
    I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
    He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
    He just smiled and gave me a marmite sandwich
    And he said,

    "I come from a land down under
    Indeed, I hail from Australia
    Where beer does flow and men chunder
    Where lots of beer leads to an inordinate time on the dunny
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover."

    Lying in a den in Bombay
    With a slack jaw, and not much to say
    I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
    Because I come from the land of plenty?"
    Because I hail from Australia
    And he said,

    "Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
    Where women glow and men plunder?
    Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
    You better run, you better take cover."




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    (>'.'<)
    ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

    #2
    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    here are the lyrics...
    their invoice is in the post !

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      #3
      the original was outside copyright shirley?

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        #4
        Originally posted by DS23 View Post
        the original was outside copyright shirley?
        you would have thought so, I mean, maybe the musos here can tell us how hard it is to come up with something completely original ?


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        ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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          #5
          They won't mind. Australians never whinge, as we "pommes" are known to do. They will take it with a fair helping of dinkum with no larrikin worries mate.

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            #6
            The thing I dont get is it was ripped off a tune called 'Kookaburra sits in an Old Gum Tree'.

            Now that song has been sung by generations of school kids in Australia and I can't ever remember connecting the dots and my school daze and the release of this song co-incided ......

            Seems to me like this is a case of lawyers winning rather than common sense.

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              #7
              Originally posted by NeverBeenNorthOfTheM25 View Post
              The thing I dont get is it was ripped off a tune called 'Kookaburra sits in an Old Gum Tree'.

              Now that song has been sung by generations of school kids in Australia and I can't ever remember connecting the dots and my school daze and the release of this song co-incided ......

              Seems to me like this is a case of lawyers winning rather than common sense.
              It's a fair cop Bruce. Oz is one of the most PC countries I ever saw (in places)

              In other places its bonza. Blue. er.. digger


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              ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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                #8
                Copyright lasts until the death of the creator plus 70 years (even down under), hence the kookaburra song is probably still covered.

                Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
                you would have thought so, I mean, maybe the musos here can tell us how hard it is to come up with something completely original ?
                You don't have to. If you write "Playing With Fire" by N-Dubz completely by coincidence, rather than copying the original, having been on a desert island for the past year, that's OK. Also if you copy trivial bits that don't in themselves contain much creative effort (like a pair of notes together) that's OK.
                The fun bit is of course in deciding what's coincidence, and what's trivial. But if all Australian kids know 'Kookaburra sits in an Old Gum Tree', and the court decided they copied a significant riff, they're breaching copyright.
                Last edited by thunderlizard; 4 February 2010, 11:45. Reason: incorrect capitalisation on "Playing With Fire" and I don't want Dappy to come and kill me.

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                  #9
                  who is dappy ?
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                  ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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                    #10
                    From what I can make out, he's a kind of real-life Andy Pandy character popular with today's children.

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