by Joe Bennett | Jun 26, 2017 | Copyright, IASPM, musicology, Plagiarism, Research, Songwriting
Joe Bennett, Boston Conservatory at Berklee [Presented at IASPM 2017, 26 June 2017] Here is the abstract, with references, for the academic paper I presented at the IASPM 2017 conference in Kassel, Germany. At the moment it’s just abstract, slides and...
by Joe Bennett | Jun 23, 2017 | Copyright, musicology, Plagiarism, Research, Songwriting
Friends, musicians and soundmen (and women) – lend me your ears. Here are some Wayfair TV commercials in a playlist – let me know (Twitter @joebennettmusic) what songs you think they’re using as a template for the music. Disclosure – this is...
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by Joe Bennett | Feb 7, 2017 | Copyright, Plagiarism, Popular Music, Research
I Hate These Blurred Lines: Wrongful Appropriation and Copyrightability in Music Copyright Academic/copyright post: here’s an abstract (pdf) of a paper that I’ll be presenting with Prof Wendy Gordon next week at Boston University Law School. This is based...
by Joe Bennett | Oct 28, 2016 | Copyright, Education, Popular Music, Research
My first full session today at the CMS conference is presented by Berklee faculty members Peter Alhadeff and Luiz Augusto Buff. They are, today, analysing and critiquing Berklee’s Fair Music Report. Peter begins with some caveats; he comments that the report...
by Joe Bennett | Apr 14, 2016 | Copyright, musicology, Plagiarism, Popular Music, Songwriting
As mentioned in a previous post, the question of whether Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven (1971) copies a part of Spirit’s Taurus (1968) may soon be settled. Representatives of the late Randy Wolfe (aka Randy California) are claiming that the four-bar...
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