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Member Username: Bruegelpie
Post Number: 138 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 12:19 am: | |
http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2015/ 05/when-is-music-inspired-or-a-rip-off.h tml "Guns n Roses might have a thorn in their side. People have been noting a similarity between their classic 'Sweet Child O Mine' and a song recorded six years earlier - Australian Crawl's 'Unpublished Critics'. Apparently the Crawl are not itching to take this to court - so has some common sense finally crept into the debate over intellectual property? Rebecca Levingston spoke to former Australian Crawl front man James Reyne and John Willsteed - former bassist with the Go-Betweens and now lectures in music at QUT." |