Recent additions to Lost in Music
We've recently added some new case notes and updated others as cases have resolved.
Right Said Fred vs Taylor Swift
Rolling Stone Magazine reported in August 2017 that Right Said Fred had settled terms with Taylor Swift for using elements of their song I'm Too Sexy in her new song Look What You Made Me Do.
Frederic Austin vs Columbia Gramophone Co.
The first 20th century infringement case concerns an arrangement of the same public domain material by two separate musicians. Polly was an opera written by librettist John Gay and composer Johann Christoph Pepusch in 1728 and published by ...
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robkerr • 3 May 2018 • 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 • 3 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 not ...
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 ...