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There’s not much that amuses copyright experts more than seeing non-sensical tags such as “No Copyright Intended” and the like in social media posts that contain popular songs. The posters are aware obviously that…

And how do marketing and advertising agencies employ preventative forensic musicologist services to reduce their music copyright risks preemptively?

Let’s start by trying to define what musicologists mean…

Compared to everything else Ye has going on lately — anti-semitic remarks here and there for example, and the backlash that’ll come from that sort of thing –…

Remember when Disney got sued because “Let It Go” might have sounded too much like “Volar?” No, me neither, but here we go again. Earlier this week, Daniel E. Grigson, filed…

It sure got people worked up, but it was mostly nonsense.

In the few days immediately following the July 29th release of “Renaissance” (Beyoncé’s first album since her 2016…

Taylor Swift has been fighting this particular battle for years. Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler sued Swift in 2017 because her biggest hit song of them all, “Shake It Off,” in…

Among other things.

Meta (formerly Facebook) stands accused of copyright infringement and is being sued by production music company Epidemic Sound for “damages” of 142 million dollars!!! We…

While watching TV last night, a few distinct thoughts struck me, and together they converged to inspire this post.

My first thought, which I’d had countless times before,…

Marshall Jefferson is suing Ye because Jefferson’s iconic 1986 track, “Move Your Body,” was allegedly sampled without permission on Kanye’s Donda 2’s “Flowers” and to make things potentially more complicated, Kanye’s song…

Mariah Carey is being sued by a musician named Andy Stone because he claims “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is an infringement. Stone wrote a song by the same name…