For those that may of been following this. Men at Work have lost their plagiarism case, with a court ruling that they stole the "kookaburra sits in the old gum tree" flute riff for their 1983 hit "down Under". The band is now looking at coughing up 40-60% of thesongs earnings to the songs origanal creator Marion Sinclair, who wrote the classic australian riff in 1935 for a girl guides jamboree. This is a case that origanlly came about after attention was brought too the song after triple j's Lindsay McDougall ran a competition for listeners to name where the riff was from late last year.
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