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By: General Global Week in Review 27 September 2010 from IP Think Tank

General Global Week in Review 27 September 2010 from IP Think Tank — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:13:00 +0000

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Standing up for what I believe in – I Am The Walrus | Reinventing Me — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 04:21:23 +0000

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By: hmm

hmm — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:40:48 +0000

maybe i just don’t care

By: Anonamoose

Anonamoose — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:09:24 +0000

@StevO

…but Queen were right to sue Vanilla Ice.

Firstly he was shit, that alone is a good enough reason.

Secondly, pretty much the only thing people remeber about his “song” was that it used the Queeen riff.

By: Anonamoose

Anonamoose — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:05:44 +0000

A simple change of law needs to be made.

You shouldn’t be able to buy the rights to something, it’s obviously not how the law is supposed to work.

As for the infringment in the Men at Work song, it’s utter bullshit.

Firstly it’s a very tiny part of the song, secondly as far as anyone was aware the tune was owned by a girl guides.

Lets say that the infringing part is 5% of the song, surely you should only get 5% of that 5%….well you should get thrown in prison for wasting the courts time, but that’s another story.

By: StevO

StevO — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:20:44 +0000

and actually it was a 2 note riff. yeah they sound alike but its 2 notes on a bass guitar. Pff.

By: StevO

StevO — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:17:08 +0000

quenn sued vanilla ice over a bass riff. ice ice baby from under pressure. yeah I can see riff starting to be sued. How many songs use the identical chords? its insane. Its like Tide suing over another manufacturer using a box to sell detergent in.

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By: JaneDoe3000

JaneDoe3000 — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:21:29 +0000

Colin Hay of Men at Work got screwed over hard. Hay wrote “Down Under” without the offending flute riff; it was only added when new band member, Greg Ham, played it. Even Greg Ham had no idea of the song that was supposedly copied.
If the flute riff copies anything, it is the song of the kookaburra bird in Australia, whose trilling is almost identical. It is the sound of nature.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:59:51 +0000

when you really look into this, Copyright as a whole is absolute bullshit, there is no such thing as intelectual property.

when will the law finally be changed? when someone gets sued for saying a line from a famous tv show?