In the spotlight
January 2018: new additions to Lost in Music
A busy start to the New Year has seen two interesting new infringement cases emerge. First came a case between Radiohead and Lana Del Rey, bringing Creep and Get Free into the spotlight. Shortly afterwards co-writers of Jasmine Rae's When I Found You ...
Settled
Burruss, Cottle and Briggs vs Sheeran, Mac and McDaid
Although no legal action was ever reported in this case, news stories began to surface in January 2017 observing a similarity between the chorus of Ed Sheeran's single Shape Of You with TLC's 1999 hit No Scrubs, a UK number three and US number one. ...
Decided
Eight Mile Style LLC and others vs New Zealand National Party and others
In 2014 the New Zealand National Party ran a TV advertising campaign for the election that year, using a track called Eminem Esque, licensed from a production music library. The ad aired several times in August 2014 and after media commentary ...
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robkerr • 3 weeks ago • 0 replies
Lady Gaga vs. Rita Ora
Rita Ora's latest single 'Anywhere' is strikingly similar in its melodic style to the work of Lady Gaga on the whole, but the chorus bears particular resemblance to that ...
robkerr • 9 Oct 2017 • 2 replies
Liam Payne ft. Quavo vs. Shaggy ft. Rikrok
Listening to the radio yesterday, I couldn't help but feel sorry for people like Ed Sheeran. Imagine being him, getting in the car to drive to your lawyer's office to tie ...
SimonA • 18 Jul 2017 • 0 replies
BBC article on the threat of a copyright infringement case stifling creativity
Interesting article on the BBC site 12 July 2017: Is the threat of a copyright infringement stifling music http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40560477 I'm ...
robkerr • 6 Jul 2017 • 0 replies
Muse vs. John Williams
Muse - one of my favourite bands - were once one of the most original bands of their generation. Although indebted heavily to Radiohead and Jeff Buckley as musical and ...
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