Don't leave Men at Work to face the music | Tom Service

The Aussie band is being sued for plagiarising a three-second riff. But musicians have always borrowed from one another – just ask MozartPoor old Men at Work. The ludicrous decision by an Australian court to make them pay up to 60% of the royalties of Down Under to Larrikin Music because of the similarity of band member Greg Ham's flute riff – which plays precisely three times in the song – to a 1934 ditty written for the Aussie Girl Guides, should strike fear into all music...

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