{"id":4324,"date":"2010-02-05T08:34:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2010-02-05T08:34:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:34:36","slug":"kookaburra-sits-in-the-old-gum-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=4324","title":{"rendered":"Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Well there was a tragic copyright case recently. On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/tv\/spicksandspecks\/\">Spicks and Specks,<\/a> they pointed out how an iconic Australian rock song contained a section that was lifted from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kookaburra_sits_in_the_old_gum_tree\">Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum tree<\/a>. So the owners of the copyright took Australian Crawl to court and won. Only then did it become known that the tune was stolen by Marion Sinclair from a welsh folk song. So now the question has to arise, how will Marion&#8217;s estate pay back all those illegally gathered royalties?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/538273601\/sizes\/o\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4325\" title=\"KookaburraJervisBay\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/KookaburraJervisBay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: justify\"><!--more--><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebushwackers?ref=nf\">The Bushwackers<\/a> Feeling sad for Colin Hay and Ron Strykert. Marion Sinclair copied an old Welsh folk song &#8211; &#8220;There You Are Sitting Blackbird&#8221; (not even an original subject!), and claimed an &#8216;original&#8217; work. So, 30 years after Marion&#8217;s death and Down Under was an international hit, a bunch of publishers who had nothing to do with create&#8230;ing Kookaburra demand millions of dollars in &#8216;compensation&#8217;! Hope the judge sees sense. Dobe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well there was a tragic copyright case recently. On Spicks and Specks, they pointed out how an iconic Australian rock[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[293,1138,1629,2010],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-ramblings","tag-australian-crawl","tag-down-undeer","tag-gum-tree","tag-kookaburra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}