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 | 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 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...
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