Essays About forensic musicology

Blurred Lines, Ur-Lines, and Color Lines

by Robert Fink Nothing puts musicology in the headlines like a big, juicy verdict in a musical copyright case. And they don’t come much juicier than the 7.4 million dollar judgment handed down last week by a federal jury which, enabled by extensive musicological expert testimony, decided that Robin Thicke… Read More

Forensic Musicology

by Sandy Wilbur NOTE: as part of our ongoing series on professional activity in musicology, we asked Sandy Wilbur to summarize her work.  As a forensic musicologist, I have a wide variety of projects, potential or ongoing music litigations, public domain research, preventative problem solving (avoiding infringement issues when using… Read More