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Jim Price
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 Post Posted: Thursday Feb 04, 2010 
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The band Men At Work will be paying out some monetary damages over the flute riff used in their '80s hit "Down Under." A court found the riff originated from an Australian children's song. The story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8497433.stm
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 Post Posted: Thursday Feb 04, 2010 
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Jim Price wrote:
The band Men At Work will be paying out some monetary damages over the flute riff used in their '80s hit "Down Under." A court found the riff originated from an Australian children's song. The story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8497433.stm


At what point does a musical phrase become copyrightable? One note? Two notes? Twenty?
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