Sony ATV speaks up about plagiarism + Heartbreaker’ is #1 on illegal download sites

[kishikiari.livejournal.com]

Sony ATV Music Publishing which holds 10% copyright ownership to Flo Rida’s ‘Right Round’ and 100% ownership to Oasis’ ‘She’s electric’ talks about their stand on accusations of plagiarism for GDragon’s solo album songs.

They sai, “The 10 composers to ‘Right Round’ have not all expressed their opinion on this issue until. We had sent samples of GDragon’s songs to the parties involved for the 2 songs ‘Right Round’ and ‘She’s Electric’.”

They added, “There are indeed similarities between ‘Heartbreaker’ and ‘Right Round’ and between ‘Butterfly’ and ‘She’s Electric’. But it is hard to say if it is plagiarism at this stage. We will all go with the final decision of the composers to the song.”

And about the never ending issues of plagiarism in Korea, Sony ATV said, “Samplying and remake of song by using part of the original song should be allowed. But sampling without persmission is not. The individual should try his/her best to make their own music/work everytimes so as to protect the copyright of others’ works. The piece of work should be the creator’s own expression and not just the idea or title.”

“Also there is this thing about following trend. There may be cases when people or music experts will listen to a song A and think that it plagiarises song B, but that is because listening to it makes one think about the special characteristics of song B.”

Meanwhile, ‘Heartbreaker’ is #1 up on illegal music download site PSP with 23% of the downloads accruing to the song. Not only that, songs ‘Boy’ and ‘The Leader’ featuring Teddy and CL are at #2 and #3. And other songs from his first solo album like ‘Hello’ and ‘Butterfly’ are also at #5 and #7 on the illegal download chart.

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[honeydice.livejournal.com]

They should just shut up.

[skrillex.livejournal.com]

This.

[biznass.livejournal.com]

yeah this is getting so old so fast, and clearly no one has done anything about it so far, so whatever~

[jaybomb.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, ‘Heartbreaker’ is #1 up on illegal music download site PSP with 23% of the downloads accruing to the song. Not only that, songs ‘Boy’ and ‘The Leader’ featuring Teddy and CL are at #2 and #3. And other songs from his first solo album like ‘Hello’ and ‘Butterfly’ are also at #5 and #7 on the illegal download chart.

lol damn GD, git it. But I'm curious what songs were stuck in at #4 and #6~

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

probably abracadabra and indian boy

[tabi.livejournal.com]

There may be cases when people or music experts will listen to a song A and think that it plagiarises song B, but that is because listening to it makes one think about the special characteristics of song B.

IA so hard.

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Somebody needs to send this to Sony ATV:



0:39-0:46 and 02:55-03:02 the same flow as in 'Right Round' or in 'Heartbreaker', but years before 'Right Round' came out. I bet Flow Rida didn't either get rights for it.

[baeraki.livejournal.com]

lol

Missy Elliot rapped the same way in '08 as well for one of PCD's songs.

seriously, people have been singing in triplets for years XD idgi Sony idgi.

[livvyxo.livejournal.com]

"The 10 composers to ‘Right Round"

It took TEN PEOPLE to come up with that song?

[wondererx.livejournal.com]

yeah seriously
the song was so damn repetitive i was tired listening to it for the first time = =
that never happened to me for heartbreaker.

[baeraki.livejournal.com]

that's just crazy XD

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

ROFLOLMAO

No wonder it is a mess
But srsly
What are the chances of getting 10 crap people to make a crap song. There should've been SOMEONE who knew better >.

[bambayahh.livejournal.com]

LMFAO. this xD

[blooberrie.livejournal.com]

TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH BB

[lovelyable.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA MTE.

[ldnlass.livejournal.com]

seriously, a lot of chords and beats can easily sound similar. you can only play with so many chords and beats and combine them.

they're just trying to make money out of what they know is going to generate a lot of it D:

[kishikiari.livejournal.com]

(http://pt-br.tinypic.com)

[cookie-nut.livejournal.com]

I still can't believe it took ten people to come up with that music. That's just sad.

[honeebs.livejournal.com]

That means the songs hot right?
Go on witcha bad self- GD!

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

Who also think that GD should sell that song in Europe too? The soung is soooooooooooooo european imo. It would totally work.

I could see that song being played in clubs.

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

THIS

[edgirl-12.livejournal.com]

I THOUGHT THAT SO MUCH!

Heartbreaker especially would do considerably well in Europe. PLEASE GD, THINK ABOUT IT!

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

This should just die

[berrycherry.livejournal.com]

Just chiming in to say that I have Heartbreaker on infinity loop since the album came out and I still dont see where it sounds like Right Round '_'

[honeebs.livejournal.com]

this
Sony ATV said, “Samplying and remake of song by using part of the original song should be allowed. But sampling without persmission is not. The individual should try his/her best to make their own music/work everytime so as to protect the copyright of others’ works. The piece of work should be the creator’s own expression and not just the idea or title.”

AND I'M OUT AND DONE WITH THIS TOPIC.
~~also side note....this is why we will be WAITING for T.O.P coz he bling blings like L.E.D

[she-devil666.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised no one has said anything about this but.... GD'S songs are the tops on a known iilegal downloading site... Yet they have all these campaign's to STOP iilegal downloading >.> So who can tell me what's wrong with that sentence?

I'm surprised they hadn't done what the US did to Napster...

[electrikkthrust.livejournal.com]

i remember fire was number one on an illegal downloading site too. xD
idk, korea obv doesn't have its musical priorities straight.

[filmsession.livejournal.com]

haha ikr? they always use illegal downloading music charts in their articles and idgi

[blooberrie.livejournal.com]

I know right? let's go Korea, you're either yay or nay for this.

[kokorabbit5.livejournal.com]

... It took 10 people to compose Right Round? Seriously?

[thsk.livejournal.com]

lmfao mte

[angeliaiba.livejournal.com]

The 10 composers to ‘Right Round’ have not all expressed their opinion on this issue.

LOL TEN COMPOSERS. OKAY.

In other news, it's totally awesome that Heartbreaker is top on illegal download sites.

[thsk.livejournal.com]

you go gee dee

[xkimchi-ninja.livejournal.com]

[stylishlook.livejournal.com]

love this bb.
i just find dgragon more attractive than chris crocker.

[faenikins.livejournal.com]

i find this so weird. when im listening to gd's "plagiarized" songs i never think "wow this song totally sounds like so-and-so" until they are played back to back but even then it's kinda w/e. im sure you can compare a lot of songs like that though ):

[masturbia.livejournal.com]

“Samplying and remake of song by using part of the original song should be allowed. But sampling without persmission is not. The individual should try his/her best to make their own music/work everytimes so as to protect the copyright of others’ works. The piece of work should be the creator’s own expression and not just the idea or title.”

DONE