Colin Hay of Men At Work is mad that a music publisher has successfully sued for damages for the Down Under song plagiarizing from the Australian song Kookaburra.Read more

Kookaburra Song Blog Results

• Men At Work Did Rip off Kookaburra Song « Newsbitz
  A federal Judge has ruled that music group Men At Work did use “a substantial part” of the popular children’s folk song Kookaburra Sings In The Old Gum Tree, in their number one hit Down Under. Copyright owner of Kookaburra, … Read more
• Hay: Greed At Work In 'Kookaburra' Case In News : Mess+Noise
  “It may well be noted, that Marion Sinclair herself never made any claim that we had appropriated any part of her song ‘Kookaburra’, and she wrote it, and was most definitely alive, when Men At Work’s version of ‘Down Under’ was a big …Read more
• Kookaburra sits on his royal-tee
  I’ve known the Kookaburra song since I was a child, and I was almost an adult when Land Down Under came out. I have never, until this story, associated Land Down Under with Kookaburra. 7 James Woodruff 02.05.10 at 2:42 pm. Crikey! … Read more
• IP Now – Australia & New Zealand Intellectual Property Law » Blog …
  Two bars of the four bar round “Kookaburra” were reproduced in “Downunder” albeit they were in a different key and were separated by the basic “hook” of “Downunder” (or attractive part of the song). These elements of “Kookaburra” were … Read more
• Kookaburra Song
  Plagiarism was limited to internet world according to my humble understandings but now it has dawned on me that almost every aspect of our lives is under. Read more

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Twitter News:

TinselTone: @matty_k Sixty percent of the song’s worth? That’s just silly. Great song, if overplayed. The kookaburra line’s an important motif, but 60%?

MAtty_K: @MelSchoo The rights to Kookaburra is still owned. It is not a free song. Much like Happy Birthday.

MelSchoo: @matty_k Normally I’d agree, but Kookaburra is very similar to an old song & if so blatant why did it take 20yrs & Spicks&Specks to realise

MJFerruzza: Before Pauley from OMC died he should have sued Sugar Ray for stealing "How Bizarre" riffs in the song "Fly" (Kookaburra 4everyone!)

_Quizzical_: @flyonwings it’s the flute riff that is another ‘version’ of the kookaburra song.

Christine_dAbo: RT @MichellePillow: Men At Work’s ‘Down Under’ Violated Copyright – court ruled song copied ‘Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.’ http://bit.ly/az78qs

MichellePillow: Men At Work’s ‘Down Under’ Violated Copyright – court ruled song copied ‘Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.’ http://bit.ly/az78qs

IrisAyame: What the hell? Australian quarrel, Down Under vs. Kookaburra. Remember singing that song as 10-year old. That Kookaburra won that… wow…

jaccook: I dont see it. No way does ‘down under’ sound like the kookaburra song! … Mind you it took them 40 odd yrs to make this assumption. Geez.

nangeanarendra: RT @LisaGreenLAW: Another song fight: Aussie court says "Down Under" copied "Kookaburra Sits on the Old Gum Tree — now I can’t get that song out of my head.

clubwah: Kookaburra song was a rip off too!!!! http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2010/02/08/144325_news.html

sispace: @tree183 The court case was about the flute part being like the Kookaburra song, Family Guy – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88gcTx7NREI

73caroline: @sambaintv If it’s any consolation, as an ex Oz girl guide I now have the Kookaburra song firmly stuck in my head. Trust me, it’s far worse!

Tecumseh: The lawyers that have persuaded a court that a song about a kookaburra in a gum tree has been ripped off by Downunder might get lots of work

PopPassionistas: Did Men at Work rip off the Kookaburra song? Decide for yourself at http://www.popculturepassionistas.com