Comments on: Friday earworm: My Definition of an unfair ruling

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:00:22 +0000

Linkage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhfymcI_5g

By: CastIron Carol

CastIron Carol — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:12:52 +0000

totally great song – what a good remix eh? makes me think of Austin powers doing a handstand…lol

By: ThirdCat

ThirdCat — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:52:14 +0000

I loooove that song…always, always makes me feel good.

By: Marshall Stacks

Marshall Stacks — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:18:42 +0000

and it is remarkable that when Warren*Fahey founded his Larrikin record label, it was based on sea shanties, colonial songs, and Traditional Works which were all Public Domain and required no mechanical royalties to be paid (mechanical is separate from Performing).
This vile action by multinational corporate puppet Norm*Lurie, has been enabled by that Free Trade Agreement that JWHoward (on our behalf) entered into with GWBush.

By: Ann O'Dyne

Ann O'Dyne — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:12:35 +0000

over at Marshall Stacks, Bwca quotes Norm*Lurie
“The company has hit the jackpot since buying the rights to Kookaburra in 1990 for just $6100″. Mr Lurie estimates Larrikin has netted “hundreds of thousands’’ of dollars from licensing agreements with publishers and authors around the world, who had always considered it to be in the public domain.
“It’s earnt a hell of a lot of money for us since we’ve bought it,’’ Mr Lurie said
“The song had not even been registered until 1975, when someone suggested it to Sinclair, he said”

That last bit is intriguing – how are royalties paid to APRA on a composition they don’t have a record of?
APRA would not survive an investigation into monies collected, but that’s another story.”