Men At Work's 'Down Under' Violated Copyright

Australian court ruled the song copied the children's classic 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.'By Gil Kaufman For a generation of pop music fans in the 1980s, it was the bubbly anthem that provided a lesson about the Australian vegetable-based brown sandwich spread vegemite. For Aussie band Men at Work, it was the song that put them on the international map, making them the only band from "Down Under" to ever have a #1 album, Business as Usual, and single at the same time in the U.S. an...

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