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
Whatever the record is around here for the quickest complete dismissal of an infringement claim, I expect to challenge it today. The accused work, “Dare To Know,” by Yes, whom I’ll disclose I listened to constantly in my youth, does not infringe on a cue from the movie “A Winter Rose,” which I don’t plan ...| Music Copyright Expert Witness & Forensic Musicologist
Last week, Plies sued Megan Thee, GloRilla, Cardi, and Soulja Boy for copyright infringement. The complaint is here, if you’d like to read it. Plies’s twisty claim seems to be that Soulja Boy’s “Pretty Boy Swag” (2010) infringes on Plies’s “Me & My Goons” (2008), and then Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla, and Cardi B’s “Wanna ...| Music Copyright Expert Witness & Forensic Musicologist
On April 4, 2024, Tuff City Records sued Universal Music Group over an alleged infringement that dates back to 1992, when Mary J. Blige, just twenty-one years old, released her first top-ten hit, “Real Love.” The complaint, filed in New York, claims “Real Love” infringes on a well-sampled record from 1973, the Honey Drippers (not ...| Music Copyright Expert Witness & Forensic Musicologist
Anyone can hear that it’s wrong. But you might be surprised at why and how it’s wrong. Everyone hates these commercials, but nobody can ignore them, so props to the creators of the Burger King jingle; the “earworm that’s taken over America.” Ask almost anyone why it’s so “bad” and they’ll say, “It’s because the ...| Forensic Musicologist Services
