..a jokey little musical quote into a song is now in deep shit.
That includes just about every jazz player that ever lived.

You should have seen the shit-eating grin on the lawyers face afterwards. I wanted to punch him one.

The clowns who won this case only bought the rights to the song in 1988 after the death of the woman who wrote it. That means Down Under was a huge hit in Australia TWICE in the songwriters lifetime. Once on the original release and then again a few years later when it was used as the theme for the America's Cup and it went up the charts again.

She must have heard it, if only on the news. She never saw fit to sue.

The court case only came about due to the quiz show Spicks and Specks when the panellists discussed the similarity after answering a question. That was in about 2002! Twenty years later, surely there should be statute of limitations for plagarism. The scumbag lawyers think they are entitled to "40 or 60 percent" for what is at most a fleeting similarity.

I genuinely couldn't make out any similarity. Law...ass...etc...

is laughing all the way to the bank.

An Australian folk music expert named Ada Kelly said in the paper today that Kookaburra itself was a direct take from an ancient Welsh song called, "There You are Sitting Black Bird" So basically nobody wrote it.

Hopefully they call her as a witness at the appeal.