wotmate t1_jdxhr8b wrote
Reply to comment by pohatu771 in TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra". by El-Hairy
That's the point though, it's not theirs, they just own it because of Disney's copyright system.
Beethoven would be losing his shit if he knew that school children were mangling his music with recorders, but he's long dead. Copyright, like patents, exist so that the original creator can make money from their creations, not so that some troll can sue people long after the creator is dead.
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