Imagine standing on a stage, singing the hit song you wrote 30 years ago with the same vocal cords that made it a global phenomenon, only to be handed a court order telling you that, legally, your history belongs to someone else. This is the bleak reality for the founding members of the Little River Band. In this episode of pplpod, we conduct a structural archaeology of the 2002 Federal Court of Australia decision in We Too Pty Ltd v Shorrock. We unpack the "Attrition Trap," analyzing how a 1988 administrative shift in a holding company allowed a later addition to the group, Stephen Housden, to legally inherit the entire legacy of one of Australia’s greatest cultural exports. We explore the mechanical "separation of the singer from the song," where corporate Trad ...