Cover versions, samples, and borrowed melodies are of high relevance for creative and economic aspects in today's music business. However, the use of pre-existing musical material can often lead into uncertain and difficult legal areas where advice from a music expert is necessary.
We offer a comprehensive and professional service in all instances and situations regarding music copyright, such as plagiarism and sampling from pre-existing recordings.

We deliver
expert witness reports, expert opinions, musical analyses (including exact measurements of musical similarity) as well as consulting for composers and the advertising industry.

Our work

• is always in line with the current international copyright and author rights legislations
• draws on the latest research in music cognition and musicology
• employs computational methods for music analysis and similarity measurement
• can be guaranteed to be delivered reliably, flexibly and on time.

Our “Unique Selling Position”:

• We work as a team complementing each other in terms of time resources and professioal skills.
• We make the most out of the synergies arising from our complementary competences incorporating
• research on derivative works and plagiarism
• computational and cognitive methods
• inside-knowledge of the music business
• vast knowledge of different musical repertoires

For our clients this means:

• Very short response times (generally within hours) and efficient processing of expert witness reports
• High-quality reliable results even in difficult or ambiguous cases.

Our clients are

• Music publishers
• Law firms
• Record companies
• Advertising agencies
• Media production companies and
• Composers