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

[Craig Sanders]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:50:13AM +1100, Philip Argy wrote:
> In Australia judges base their decisions on the evidence tendered in the
> case - not on what is in Wikipedia!

well, yes, obviously.

> If Men At Work's lawyers didn't put the Welsh folksong evidence before the
> judge he could not take any account of it.

there was an earlier, related, Federal Court case that decided on 30
July last year that Larrikin records did own the copyright on the song.

the interesting question is whether the folksong evidence was submitted
in that case or not.

craig

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