Men At Work Ordered To Pay 5% Of Earnings On 'Down Under' Over C...

Last summer we were among those amazed at the claim from a music publisher that the popular 80's song "Down Under" by the band Men at Work supposedly infringed on a popular Australian folk tune, Kookaburra, that was written back in the 1930s.

The publisher who sued, Larrikin, had only taken possession of the copyright on the folk tune in 2000, and didn't even notice the similarity until a TV quiz show pointed it out.

You would think that...