Men at Work Lose 'Down Under' Court Case

Filed under: NewsAustralian band Men at Work have lost a federal court case in Sydney, Australia, after being sued for plagiarism over their 1981 number one US and UK hit single 'Down Under.'The band now face paying up to 60% of the song's income, after the court ruled the song copied its flute riff from a Girl Guides song called 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.' The campfire song was originally written for the 1935 Girl Guides Jamboree, by the now-deceased Marion Sinclair.Another court hea...

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