Del Boy
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 22, 2016 20:24:02 GMT
These copyright claims dog the business all the time, it's an absolute nightmare to sort this kind of thing out. There is always going to be those who plagiarise others work, but equally you will have people who seek to profit from spurious claims. There have been some big cases over the years of this type of claim. Two that spring to mind are The Verve - The Stones For bitter sweet symphony and Men at Work for Land Down Under. I knew about the Stones-Verve claim case,what was 'Land Down Under' supposed to be ripping off?Wasn't aware of that case. Cheers for answering Gene. These cases take years to go through court must cost a fortune in legal fees. The Verve one was very interesting because it all revolved around this The Stones manager and producer Andrew Oldham made a made a orchestral version of The Rolling Stones- Last Time It was used in the Verve track Bittersweet Symphony The case ended up in court because of an issue regarding the string sample used and licensed by The Verve. The Last Time copyright holder Alan Klein's ABKCO Records (ABKCO owned the copyright to all the Stones 60s stuff) successfully argued Bittersweet Symphony used the strings to build the song around therefore was more a integral part to the track than the sample it was licensed to use. The end result saw the song credited to Jagger and Richards and The Verve ended up losing 100% of the royalties from it. Apparently Keith Richards said in a interview around that time that if Richard Ashcroft can write a better song he can keep all the money Whilst Richard Ashcroft said that Bittersweet Symphony was the best song the Stones had written in 20 years
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 23, 2016 16:25:02 GMT
Apparently Keith Richards said in a interview around that time that if Richard Ashcroft can write a better song he can keep all the money Whilst Richard Ashcroft said that Bittersweet Symphony was the best song the Stones had written in 20 years It was Del in fact it's the best one The Verve have done in the last 20 years! :lol:
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Post by Batgirl on May 4, 2016 12:35:44 GMT
The flute section of Down Under was said to be based on a 1932 composition by Marion Sinclair called Kookaburra (A childrens song). As Sinclair died in 1988, copyright passed to publishers Larrikin Music. In 2010, it was ruled that Down Under has reproduced a substantial part of Kookaburra and granted Larrikin 5% of royalties from the song from 2002 onwards.
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Colin Hay has changed the flute riff to 'Down Under' when he plays it now. The old childrens song about the kookaburra was still known from being played and sung on childrens tv shows here but no one ever thought it was really purposely copied.
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Post by Windy Miller on Jun 27, 2016 19:55:06 GMT
Led Zeppelin Not Guilty M'lud!
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