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

[Kim Holburn]

On 2010/Feb/04, at 7:58 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:

> 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.

It is that now.  It wasn't always that.  It can depend on what the  
laws were when it was copyrighted.  IANAL of course.

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