Aussie Songs Square Off: Did Men At Work Rob The Cradle?

“Down Under,” the 1981 pop hit by Men at Work, and “The Kookaburra Song,” the classic 1934 children’s tune, “now reside at the center of a fierce intellectual-property battle raging in Australia. The copyright holder of ‘The Kookaburra Song’ says it’s unlawfully sampled in ‘Down Under.'”