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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 | 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...
by Joe Bennett | Dec 2, 2014 | Copyright, Plagiarism, Research, Songwriting
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by Joe Bennett | Feb 1, 2014 | fm2, Plagiarism, Research, Songwriting
[edit: update 12 March 2015] The case has now been resolved, and the jury found in the Gayes’ favour, despite the copying not being exact and the musical elements dissimilar, as my original February 2014 post (below) argues. In an interview with...
by Joe Bennett | Jan 16, 2014 | Plagiarism, Songwriting, Total Guitar
This article originally appeared in Total Guitar magazine issue 229. Reproduced by permission. Words: Joe Bennett. Illustration: Andy Watt. Click the image to download a pdf. ———— It’s a common feeling. You write a line and it immediately...
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