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Thread #131687 Message #2972862
Posted By: Howard Jones
25-Aug-10 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: Polka tune onToyota Ad?
Subject: RE: Polka tune onToyota Ad?
It's a UK ad. The tune is very well known here (well known among folkies, anyway)
It's not the whole tune, but the riff they use is the first 2 1/2 bars exactly note-for-note.
I bet the composer who wrote/plagiarised the riff has claimed full copyright on it, and probably charged a handsome fee. Now if they'd only asked my band we'd have let them use our arrangement for a very reasonable rate :)