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... by admin | Apr 30, 2023 | Copyright, Education, Forensic Musicology
Host Victor Blackwell interviews Professor Joe Bennett. CNN news, Sunday April 30, 2023 Introduction Blackwell: Ed sheeran played to an intimate crowd in New York on Friday: a jury in a Manhattan courtroom. They will decide whether he copied Marvin Gaye’s... ![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... by Joe Bennett | May 14, 2022 | Eurovision, musicology
Kalush Orchestra (Ukraine), who won the 2022 contest with their song ‘Stefania’. A better result than last year with the predictions – I got a home run on the top 3, and only missed one outsider – Serbia, for which I guess I misread the lyric theme.... by Joe Bennett | May 13, 2022 | Eurovision, Forensic Musicology, Popular Music, Songwriting
As regular readers will know, I have been live-blogging the ESC since 2011, and in 2020 undertook a larger-scale song analysis for Netflix, where we looked at the meta-characteristics of 259 finalists 2010-2019. To get you in the zone (I’m typing this on... 
by Joe Bennett | Apr 12, 2022 | Copyright, Forensic Musicology, musicology, Plagiarism, Popular Music, Songwriting
Watch on YouTube Interview with Professor Joe Bennett (Forensic Musicologist / Berklee College Of Music) discussing the Ed Sheeran “Shape Of You” verdict in the UK high court. Interview date: April 10, 2022 BBC World Service: World Business Report... 
by admin | Apr 7, 2022 | Copyright, Forensic Musicology, musicology, Popular Music, Songwriting
Analysis: plagiarism row between Ed Sheeran and Sami Chokri is latest in surge of lawsuits against musicians [JB comment – I was interviewed by The Guardian regarding the (IMO appropriate) outcome of the Ed Sheeran ‘Shape Of You’ 2022 case. Here’s an excerpt from...
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