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Plagiarism: Musicology’s Proof of the Pudding #arp #iaspm

by Joe Bennett | Sep 3, 2018 | arp, Education, Networked music performance, Popular Music, Research, Songwriting

Franco Fabbri, University of Milan and Conservatorio ‘A.Boito’, Parma Our opening keynote for the conference is the much-loved Franco Fabbri, a much-celebrated musician, educator and musicologist. I was particularly interested to hear this one, because Franco is...

Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven

by Joe Bennett | Apr 13, 2016 | Copyright, Plagiarism, Popular Music, Research, Songwriting

So the Stairway to Heaven / Taurus controversy was back in the news yesterday, due to the fact that the dispute is to go to a jury in the US in May this year. I participated in a panel discussion about this a couple of years back for a Russian radio station. In the...

Did Sam Smith copy ‘Earth Song’ in ‘Writing’s On The Wall’?

by Joe Bennett | Sep 30, 2015 | Copyright, Popular Music

I was interviewed this week by the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper about the alleged similarities between Sam Smith’s new James Bond movie theme song ‘Writing’s On The Wall’ and Michael Jackson’s Earth Song. This blog post is a more...

Did Sam Smith copy 'Earth Song' in 'Writing's On The Wall'?

by Joe Bennett | Sep 30, 2015 | Copyright, Popular Music

I was interviewed this week by the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper about the alleged similarities between Sam Smith’s new James Bond movie theme song ‘Writing’s On The Wall’ and Michael Jackson’s Earth Song. This blog post is a more...

Sam Smith and Tom Petty – coincidental similarity or accidental copying?

by Joe Bennett | Feb 8, 2015 | Copyright, Songwriting

This is a blog post about 5 bars of music. As reported in Rolling Stone and The Sun recently, the melodic similarity between Sam Smith’s 2014 song Stay With Me and Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down (1989) resulted in an amicable settlement between the...

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