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Kookaburra has the last laugh
The Federal Court found the flute riff in the song Down Under was originally from the 1934 children's ditty Kookaburra.
What began as a quiz question on the ABC music show Spicks and Specks morphed into a court case which ran for more than two years.
Hay says the decision may have very serious financial repercussions for the group...damages are yet to be awarded.
He doesn't deny that the band's flautist, Greg Ham, used two bars of Kookaburra, but he says that addition came after the original song was composed, referring to it as "a musical accident".
Source: ABC News 
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