Colin Hay

...Sinclair for a Girl Guides competition. Publishing firm Larrikin Music is suing EMI and Down Under songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert in a bid to recover unpaid royalties and losses. Giving evidence for EMI at a Federal Court...

In this article: Down Under, Kookaburra, Martin Armiger, Men at Work, EMI, Australian Film, Television and Radio School, All You Need Is Love, and The Sports

Publishing firm Larrikin Music claims it owns copyright of the riff and is suing Sony BMG Music Entertainment and EMI Songs Australia in a bid to gain compensation from Down Under songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert. Sony and...

In this article: Men at Work, Kookaburra, Down Under, Sony, EMI, Allegation, and Dead Weather

...the aforementioned Belgian was played to the court. In the breaks David Catterns, QC, for the band and EMI, was heard wryly suggesting that Hay will play an acoustic version in court today. Judge the similarities for yourself at smh.com.au.

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But he had not heard the popular folk song as a child, had only been made aware of its similarities with Down Under's famous flute riff in about 2002, and still did not know all the words to Kookaburra, he told the Federal Court yesterday.

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...Sits in an Old Gumtree? Listen and see. EMI, Hay and Strykert instead claimed Sinclair handed over copyright to the Girl Guides Association of Victoria when she submitted it to the competition. But in the Federal Court today Justice...

In this article: Men at Work, Down Under, Kookaburra, EMI, and Ron Strykert

...by a Melbourne music teacher, Marion Sinclair, for a Girl Guides competition. Sony BMG and EMI, with the two writers of Down Under, Colin Hay and Ron Strykert, had argued Larrikin never owned the rights to the children's song because...

In this article: Kookaburra, Down Under, Men at Work, Defendant, A MUSIC, and EMI