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
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
Producers Joshua Fraustro and Miguel Aguilar, who go by Kemika1956, are suing Cardi B because in their estimation her 2024 Top 10 hit, “Enough (Miami)” song, sounds like their “Greasy Frybread,” which was placed in the FX series, Reservation Dogs. They’re suing Cardi, along with “Enough” producers James D. Steed (DJ Swanqo) and Joshua Parker (OG Parker) and they’re even claiming ...| 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
