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by Joe Bennett | May 19, 2021 | Copyright, Forensic Musicology, musicology, Plagiarism, Popular Music, Songwriting
Betteridge’s law famously states that “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no”. And so, in the spirit of good blogging and the avoidance of cheap clickbait, I have answered my own question in the title of this post.... 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... 
by Joe Bennett | Jan 9, 2018 | Copyright, musicology, Plagiarism, Popular Music, Songwriting
This week, Lana Del Rey stated that she is being sued for copying Radiohead’s 1992 song Creep in her 2017 release, Get Free. It’s true about the lawsuit. Although I know my song wasn’t inspired by Creep, Radiohead feel it was and want 100% of the publishing... 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... ![[ABSTRACT] Appropriation and Copyrightability in Music Copyright](https://joebennett.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/hqdefault.jpg)
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...
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