Georgia Douglas

In a win for funk and a loss for free barking, the singer George Clinton has won a copyright infringement claim and appeal in the US against Universal Music Group (“UMG”) over the use of Clinton’s lyrics “Bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yea” (known within “hip” judicial circles as the “Bow Wow Refrain”) in the song “D.O.G in Me” released by hip hop group Public Announcement in 1998.

Earlier this month I commented on the copyright dispute between Men at Work and Larrikin Music about an allegedly stolen flute riff. 

“Where women glow and men plunder…” are some of the iconic lyrics of Men At Work’s hallowed song ‘Down Under’. 

On 22 April 2009 the High Court delivered its decision in Ice TV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd.