by Joe Bennett | May 13, 2023 | Forensic Musicology
Update: Monday morning Before the show started (3pm US Eastern time, 13 May 2023), I had predicted the following: 1. Sweden2. Finland3. UkraineSpain, Norway and Israel to place in the top 10. Actual top 10 results [prediction]: Sweden – Tattoo [1] Finland – Cha... ![Did The Rolling Stones plagiarize? [no]](https://joebennett.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/gt3-1080x675.jpg)
by Joe Bennett | Mar 29, 2023 | Forensic Musicology
Another week, another spurious music copyright infringement lawsuit. The Rolling Stones are being sued by an artist called Angelslang (aka Sergio Fernandez) for alleged similarities between the former’s 2020 song Living In A Ghost Town, and plaintiff’s... by Joe Bennett | Oct 2, 2022 | Forensic Musicology
Forensic Musicologist Prof Joe Bennett (Berklee College of Music) spoke to Channel 4 News (UK) on October 1st 2022 about the ongoing copyright lawsuit against Ed Sheeran relating to the basslines of “Thinking Out Loud” and “Let’s Get It On”. Interviewer: Jackie Long.... by Joe Bennett | Aug 29, 2022 | musicology, Research, Songwriting
This article is an excerpt from my PhD thesis, posted here in relation to a documentary project for which I was recently interviewed. Stock, Aitken and Waterman were one of several case studies I undertook to compare approaches to creative collaboration in songwriting... by Joe Bennett | Jun 6, 2022 | Copyright, Forensic Musicology, Songwriting
Mariah Carey performs at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony in New York in 2014: Photo: Charles Sykes/AP via The Guardian Another week, another spurious music copyright infringement lawsuit. On Friday, Mariah Carey and co-writer Walter Afanasieff...
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