Critics hear Pixies in Taylor Swift’s “Actually Romantic.” Here’s a musicological breakdown— what’s just color, vs what’s composition, and what courts care about.| Music Copyright Expert Witness & Forensic Musicologist
The Ninth Circuit revived the Ambrosetti v. OCP music copyright lawsuit. Musicologize explains why the case is a non-case—holy smoke and mirrors.| Music Copyright Expert Witness & Forensic Musicologist
We love stories about bands that don’t get along the way we idealistically expect they should. Aaaaand we also find Sting pretentious. Of course this story has legs! But no teeth. Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers don’t and likely won’t own any of the publishing on “Every Breath You Take,” no matter how much we ...| Music Copyright Expert Witness & Forensic Musicologist
Yeah. That’ll do it.Today’s cert-denial finishes “SAS I” and almost certainly finishes the other Structured Asset Sales case you might have seen mentioned in today’s reporting — the stayed numerosity-geared “SAS II.” Ed Sheeran has been defending against “Let’s Get It On” claims for years and years, and now the whole shebang ends instantly and ...| Music Copyright Expert Witness & Forensic Musicologist
Or maybe it’s my problem. After the judge in Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” infringement case not only dismissed Vince Vance’s copyright infringement claim at the summary judgment stage, but the ruling also laid the foundation for possibly awarding nearly $200,000 in legal fees that I’m guessing the plaintiff was not ...| Forensic Musicologist Services
(Getting a lot of use lately out of this artificial intelligence-generated “Scale of Music Copyright Justice” image we prompted, aren’t we?) After nearly four years, Trump finally lost the Eddy Grant “Electric Avenue” case, as we said he would. That case now moves to its damages phase. And we might take a somewhat wild guess ...| Forensic Musicologist Services
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Whatever the record is for our quickest “let’s get to the bottom of this” analysis I intend to break it here. I’ll start with the conclusion. This song (“Dare To Know”) from a record that I didn’t know existed (“Reunion”) by the band (“YES”) I listened to constantly as a youngster, but not much since, ...| Forensic Musicologist Services
Schedule a free introductory call. ORIGINALITY & SIMILARITY ANALYSIS Musicologize’s Brian McBrearty provides preemptive musicological services to avoid the risk of potential infringement and plagiarism claims. Preventative musicology services include: Comparison and analysis, most often of client work and well-known preexisting works. Determination of whether observable similarities between two works might be concerning and potentially ...| Forensic Musicologist Services
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