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Men at Work accused of plagiarism over 'Down Under'

submitted by maatc

1 decade 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago

Update: Seems like Men at Wok lost the case

10 Comments

Men at Wok are usually good cooks.

What BS. The song is from 1934 and it still has a valid copyright. Out-f*ckin-rageous!!!

therealblankman

>> ^vaporlock:
What BS. The song is from 1934 and it still has a valid copyright. Out-f ckin-rageous!!!

Thank Disney.

Absolute nonsense. The hook has a measure of that pentatonic children song and remotely so. Wrong. Plain wrong.

Moving this video to maatc's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Opus_Moderandi says...

So that one little section of the flute part constitutes plagiarism? If that's the case, there are tons of little bits of songs that sound like other songs. Haven't these people ever heard of mash ups?

>> ^gwiz665:

Men at Wok are usually good cooks.
I love that restaurant. You should see what they come out & sing for birthdays.

Yes, if this is true and they lost this opens the door for a million other lawsuits. Bloody ridiculous. There are a ton of songs that have bits and pieces that sound like riffs from other songs. Besides, the flute riff not even really that similar to what they were singing.

wtf, I thought men at work would breeze through this retarded lawsuit, they really lost?

seems they indeed lost

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8497433.stm

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