Uncategorized Archives – https://www.jfmusicservices.com/category/uncategorized/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 03:27:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.jfmusicservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/JFMS-icon-draft-1-01-150x150.png Uncategorized Archives – https://www.jfmusicservices.com/category/uncategorized/ 32 32 Brazilian Judge Rules To Pull Adele’s Million Years Ago Globally https://www.jfmusicservices.com/brazilian-judge-rules-to-pull-adeles-million-years-ago-globally/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 03:27:21 +0000 https://www.jfmusicservices.com/?p=3224 A Brazilian court recently made waves by ordering Adele’s 2015 song Million Years Ago to be pulled globally, citing plagiarism claims from Brazilian samba composer Toninho Geraes. Geraes alleges that Adele’s track closely resembles his song Mulheres, recorded by Martinho da Vila in 1995. While the song remains on major platforms, this story highlights the growing complexities […]

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]]> ELVIS Law and Fake Drake https://www.jfmusicservices.com/elvis-law-and-fake-drake/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:02:17 +0000 https://www.jfmusicservices.com/?p=3159 States have long had laws restricting the use of a celebrities’ “name, image and likeness” for commercial purposes such as advertising. The issue is gaining momentum because of AI generated “deep fakes” such as the notorious “Fake Drake” song that dropped on streaming platforms recently.  To address this risk, Tennessee has now enacted the Ensuring […]

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]]> The Finell Hierarchy of Elements in Assessing Substantial Similarities https://www.jfmusicservices.com/the-finell-heirarchy-of-elements-in-acssessing-substantial-similarities/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:54:17 +0000 https://www.jfmusicservices.com/?p=3142 In evaluating music enmeshed in plagiarism disputes, the foremost questions a musicologist addresses are: Are these works alike? If so, how are they alike? Are their underlying compositional features alike? In my own musicological education and its application to copyright infringement disputes, I have developed and relied upon a hierarchy of musical features in assessing […]

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]]> Does AI Democratize Musical Creation? https://www.jfmusicservices.com/does-ai-democratize-musical-creation/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:31:09 +0000 https://www.jfmusicservices.com/?p=3124 AI is possibly going to become a virtual collaborator with human composers. Music is a great candidate for AI, because “it’s math,” as many say, meaning it’s highly systematized and fully measurable in time, volume, tempo, frequency, and pitch. As such, it’s a prime database for machine learning. AI extrapolates patterns and traits from previous […]

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