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Me and Nutella…
Here’s an advert soundalike track. They’ve even copied the Cuíca drum. Not a single note or chord is the same as Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard, of course. But the arrangement and production...
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PopMAC day 3: Applying melodic analysis to infer the extent of plagiarism...
Applying melodic analysis to infer the extent of plagiarism in popular song authorship disputes. Joe Bennett, Bath Spa University This is my own paper. I’ll publish the slides online soon, but for now...
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Who Writes the Songs? Creative Practice and Intellectual Property in Popular...
Discussion of the originality spectrum – is ‘newness’ defined by non-plagiarism from the Domain? Joe Bennett (Bath Spa University): Who Writes the Songs? Creative Practice and Intellectual Property in...
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Forensic Musicology – interview in Danish broadsheet
Article from this week’s Weekendavisen. Click the image to download Danish version. I was interviewed recently for the Danish broadsheet newspaper Weekendavisen, which ran a feature on musical...
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The Impact of a good tune: Forensic Musicology as research
This article originally appeared on the Million+ blog website. Words: Joe Bennett. George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord was an early casualty of songwriter’s cryptomnesia. The legendary conductor (and...
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Sam Smith and Tom Petty – coincidental similarity or accidental copying?
Tom Petty, one-fifth of the co-writing team behind Sam Smith’s ‘Stay With Me’. This is a blog post about 5 bars of music. As reported in Rolling Stone and The Sun recently, the melodic similarity...
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Did Sam Smith copy ‘Earth Song’ in ‘Writing’s On The Wall’?
I was interviewed this week by the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper about the alleged similarities between Sam Smith’s new James Bond movie theme song ‘Writing’s On The Wall’ and Michael Jackson’s Earth...
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Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
So the Stairway to Heaven / Taurus controversy was back in the news yesterday, due to the fact that the dispute is to go to a jury in the US in May this year. I participated in a panel discussion about...
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Plagiarism: Musicology’s Proof of the Pudding #arp #iaspm
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...
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