[LINK] "Men at work" up a gum tree

[Craig Sanders]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 05:42:06PM +1000, Lea de Groot wrote:
> On 4/02/10 4:34 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> > Larrikin Music accused the band of stealing the song's flute riff
> >>  from the children's song Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree.
> 
> I am confused as to how this is still in copyright, myself.
> Dates from 1934, or about, so it should be well out by now!

IIRC, copyright terms are:

life of author + 50 years.

or creation/publication + 50 years if copyright is assigned to a
company.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>