ARTS 1007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Music Week, Lecture Recording, V. Kofi Agawu
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Lecture plan: submission of annotated bibliography (demonstration on lecture recording, creative expression music. Over the past few weeks we have looked at freedom of speech, offence, vilification, religion, the body, nudity, obscenity, visual art, censorship etc. However a topic which has not been of discussion is that of commerce, which is not one which you would generally hear about in regards to causing offence or being restrained. The band men at work, released a song entitled down under" many years ago. This particular song though caused much debate about copyright laws as some felt that specific musical elements were similar to that of the nursery rhyme kookaburra sits in the old gum tree". As the nursery rhyme lyricist retained copyright ownership over her work, in 2009, she sued men at. Work for copyright infringement, believing herself to be entitled to some of the profits gained from the song down under".
