The Pet Shop Boys need to relax.
The lyric in question is “the west end boys and east side girls”.
The lyrics are the main Chorus words for “West End Girls” by Pet Shop Boys and those same words are said three times in Drake’s song “All The Parties”, which is a shit song by the way.
And the words are not said with any sense of melody or to a backing track of music. They are just said. Spoken like and then auto tuned.
But “East End Girls” is at 239 million streams on Spotify so the Pet Shop Boys are very protective of their intellectual property.
COPYRIGHT TERMS
John Naughton writing for the The Guardian said the following;
…especially copyright – have been monopolised and weaponised by corporate interests and that legislators have been supine in the face of their lobbying.
Authors and inventors need protection against being ripped off.
It’s obviously important that clever people are rewarded for their creativity and the patent system does that quite well.
But if a patent only lasts for 20 years, why on earth should copyright last for life plus 70 years for a novel?
Yes why should it.
When the songs from the 60s were recorded, the Copyright terms for the songs was 28 years with the chance to renew for another 28 years. A total of 56 years.
And yet those songs got retroactively locked up for a long time by a 1978 Amendment to the Copyright Act by Disney which changed the terms to “life of the creator plus 70 years”.
This would mean that Disney’s “Mickey Mouse” created in 1928 and based on the laws of the time, should have been out of Copyright by 1984 however it would be locked up until 2003.
But in the late 90s and with the 2003 date looming, another Disney amendment was made that extended this law for Corporate works to 95 years. So the Mickey Mouse work from 1928 would finally be out of Copyright in 2023.
And 10 months in, Disney hasn’t suffered the financial losses they said they would if they lost the rights to Mickey Mouse.
In Australia, the Labels and the Movie/TV networks can go to the Federal Court with a list of sites they want blocked and the Federal Court will just approve the lists and the ISPs will then need to block their users from accessing these sites
The Federal Court is meant to review the lists (which they don’t) before rubber stamping the lists (which they immediately do). Because hey, these entities are the good guys, trying to protect Australians from pirates. And the ISPs need to do their bit to protect the business models of the labels and studios.
WHAT I’M CRANKING RIGHT NOW
Savior from Rise Against.
I became a fan because of the Guitar Hero game this song featured on many years ago.
And at 618 million streams it’s definitely making money for whoever holds the rights to it.
destroyerofharmony 
Maybe the Pet Shop Boys are really mad because the song sucks, and that is their legal way to try and get rid of it.
I only liked Drake when he was on ‘Degrassi.’