Joe Bennett Music Services
  • Home
  • Services
    • Music Copyright
    • Music for Media
    • Sample Analysis
    • Corporate Consulting
  • Info
    • About
    • Publications
    • FAQ
  • Blog
  • Contact
Select Page
Did Childish Gambino plagiarize in “This Is America”? [answer: no]

Did Childish Gambino plagiarize in “This Is America”? [answer: no]

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....

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...
Did Lana Del Rey copy Radiohead?

Did Lana Del Rey copy Radiohead?

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...

Close to the Edge: investigating songwriting's ‘plagiarism threshold’

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

[ABSTRACT] Appropriation and Copyrightability in Music Copyright

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...
« Older Entries
Next Entries »

Recent Posts

  • Eurovision live musicology blog 2023
  • Joe Bennett on CNN: Did Ed Sheeran plagiarize? [no, and here’s why]
  • Did The Rolling Stones plagiarize? [no]
  • Did Ed Sheeran copy from ‘Let’s Get It On’? [answer: no]
  • Creative processes in Stock, Aitken and Waterman’s ‘I Should Be So Lucky’

Recent Comments

  • The blurred lines between inspiration and infringement – Ilarose's blog on Did Robin Thicke steal ‘Blurred Lines’ from Marvin Gaye?
  • The Anno Domini Rag – the story of a song – Terence-Blacker on Irving Berlin: Nine Rules for Writing Popular Songs
  • Eurovision Song Contest: Decades of musical information – ♫ Down to a Note ♪ on Eurovision Song Contest research
  • And Copyright For All… | destroyerofharmony on Creative processes in Stock, Aitken and Waterman’s ‘I Should Be So Lucky’
  • Eurovision Song Contest research – Joe Bennett on Eurovision 2015 live blogging

Copyright © 2023 Joe Bennett. All rights reserved | Website by Digital Music Art