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

[Kim Holburn]

There's an interesting readers comment here (can't vouch for it but it  
would make the whole thing even more ridiculous:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/comments/0,23836,26676562-952,00.html

> The Kookaburra Song uses the music from a Welsh Folksong "Wele ti'n  
> eistedd aderyn du?" or "Dacw ti yn eistedd, y 'deryn du" (Rough  
> English translation "See you there, that black bird sitting? and is  
> older than the Kookaburra Song..Men at Work obviously used the Welsh  
> tune just as Marion Sinclair did ....and therefore have not  
> infringed Copyright.



On 2010/Feb/04, at 10:40 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> At 10:28 PM 4/02/2010, Roger Clarke you wrote:
>> Am I the only person around who's prepared to say that either the
>> judge, or the law, is a total idiot?
>
> Not the only one at all. :-) It's times like this I wish I still had
> my chops with music theory to show how dumb this really is. But if
> the people who wrote the M at W song can't defend themselves on those
> grounds, they deserve to be paying it back because they're not real  
> musicians.
>
> I went looking for sheet music of both songs, to see what the actual
> melody line is, but didn't have any luck.
>
> Jan
>
>
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