The boy-band which brazenly plagiarised a Vocaloid tune only to be outed by angry fans and a distraught creator has finally admitted its shameful conduct and made amends with its victim.
The songs in question can be inspected here.
The creator victimised by Johnny’s boy-band KAT-TUN, AVTechNO!, writes that a settlement was reached with the plagiarists:
Regarding the “DYE” incident, the producers of “NEVER x OVER” have admitted the influence of “DYE” on their song, and have taken appropriate action to settle the matter.
My sincere apologies for worrying any KAT-TUN fans with my words. KAT-TUN were not at fault – I wish them the best in future.
His vagueness and apologetic tone can probably be taken as an indication that he received cash or royalties in return for keeping his mouth shut so as to allow KAT-TUN to escape with their image and sales intact.
Hey I like KAT-TUN! Those guys can have my babies. XD
The only crime that the Car-toon band committed is trusting the depraved Composer…..They did not intended to copy the song anyway….I love DYE :))
The guy should have dragged them through the mud. Methinks some music industry yakuza went an spent him a friendly visit.
“KAT-TUN were not at fault”
There are some things you just can’t convince people to believe…
This wasn’t so big in the japanese media, people are more focus in Jin leaving the band than in this otaku shit
No hating on the otakus, please! I, for one, am a fan of Vocaloids as well as Johnny’s Entertainment. I know that they care about this issue because it was something bad committed against something they love. I know I’d be upset if someone copyrighted a song from my favorite Johnny’s group ;A;
The issue of Jin leaving was bigger because it obviously had a big effect on the group. But, I know they’ll be fine going on without him!
So stealing another person’s work is LEGAL if japanese do it. However if lets say if anyone other than a japanese does it he will get executed on the spot.
Hell yeah! Japanese the biggest racist country in the world.
You have your damn proof right here that what you just said is entirely opposite. ‘Cause the one who stoled the tune is not japanese.
And they are xenophobic, not racist.
more like C’thun amirite
One thing bothers me, Whose idea of plagiarizing a vocaloid song in the 1st place?(one person)
The composer of the song, Hans Johnson.
KAT-KUN = Justin Beiber x 5
Wonder if they have Play dolls like they do of the Beiber? Obviously NOT marketed to boys.
I wish I had money to blow, I would buy a Beiber Doll ($19.95) put it in a bondage-girl outfit with a double-ended dildo sticking out. Then spread it around so it would burn out the eyes of a few Beiber girls.
It’s OK bro, no one is stopping you.
Is that what you like to do in your spare time?
My, what a life you have. Scarring little girls and taking away their innocent love. Oh my! That sounds similar to a pedophile! Not that i’m calling you one, though… Just thought that sounded similar.
Dear God, what ever happened to RESPECT? This goes for the COMPOSER and for all you bashers as well.
CAN’T YOU GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS THAT KAT-TUN IS NOT AT FAULT? And if you don’t like them for being idols, or for having longer-than-the-American-norm hair, or whatever the hell reason you have for this unnecessary hate, it doesn’t HAVE to concern you, you know. They are what they’re like because it’s what THEIR fans like. Not YOU. They OBVIOUSLY aren’t aiming for your attention, so you shouldn’t care. I hate how people are using the words “Homo” or “fag” or all that crap to describe them when you DON’T EVEN KNOW THE BAND. And this includes those of you who’ve “heard of them, maybe a few songs too, but don’t care”
So, just be HAPPY that this is RESOLVED and get on with your lives. Thank you.
agree, and what is bad about be a litle gay? srsly
and I’m not even a fan of them…
Yay, glad it got settled peacefully.
That is to say, it got settled the way any Johnny’s case would, but now the song creator is richer for it, so it’s pretty much a win-win.
I cannot access the content of adverts to perverted stuff, it tells me “The connection was reset”. I also cannot access video.baidu.jp, it just happened when I was watching videos there, and since then I cannot connect. As if someone censored my internet…
I get full version with google translator or another proxy.
Well, It’s not KAT-TUN’s fault anyway, since they rarely compose their songs. If any, they contribute with lyrics and few arranges.
At any rate, NEVER x OVER was the worst song in their latest album, so I don’t particularly care about whatever happens to that song C: GIRLS NTT is way better <3
The fans don’t care too much about NEVERxOVER, we all love CUW or Girls, so, no big deal
I care :/
they should just stick to YAOI music
My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy create shitty songs as if they only know power chords and nothing else. For all the flack they catch for being terrible bands, at least they have some will to pick up an instrument and play them themselves.
I feel humiliated to be an Asian sometimes, in this day and age. Boybands are a fad that should have died off along with NSync, and yet these faggots can still live off all the miming and prancing on stage while looking like drag queens. The Koreans picking this up isn’t making things any better.
Meh, rip-offs in the music industry. Nowadays it feels like every “new” mainstream song is just a cheap imitation of some song from the ’80s.
Who cares? The music mafia makes trillions with never-ending rehashes.
Johnny’s gonna spank some band boys tonight as punishment.
First I thought that they were a girl-band, but then I read that it was a boy-band and I was… WTF is wrong with their look? They look so girlish. Try to convince me different. I don’t like these types of bands and their managers that they only know about money, money and nothing else. Let’s look at Justin ”whatever his last name is.” Does he has a voice? NO, but his manager thought since he looks nice and he has a emo haircut let’s just use and make him sing then use Auto-Tune so the 10-15 years old girls that don’t know about music will buy his album and in that way making money. Hell if I use Auto-Tune I can sing like Celine Dion, Elvis Presley or every band/singer I want to.
u know japanese musicians especially visual kei (not exactly these guys) were already adapting the girly look and ’emo’ hair like in the 90’s and some even late 80’s. So its not like its a new thing at all. Even though heaps of jpop do use auto tune, a lot less and i mean a whole amount less use auto tune in the japanese music industry. I’m a singer myself and my ears can pick up the smallest use of it and i trust my ears. So even though these guys probs do use it (don’t personally listen to them) there are heaps of very decent singers in japan through out all forms of music that don’t use auto tune. Unlike the rest of the dam world especially the US that use it from pop to hardcore and metal.
Lies
That’s kinda long for a boy band group I mean they should not to be call Boy they should call Middle age men band group
Quite lame if you have to go that low.
We get paid for this right
Yes goes the manager
Ok then
Someone complains
Pay out
Everything back to normal
I wish there were more bands adapting video game music.
Don’t mess with AvTechno! you fools!! One of the best producers I have ever seen do vocaloid songs.
So the guy gets his song ripped off by some joke of a band and says they were not the ones at fault?
WHAT?!
They don’t write their own songs. Don’t really know KAT-TUN, but I gotta agree that it’s not their fault since I highly doubt they listened to Miku.
First, they say that vocaloids arent music then DYE make them sing a vocaloid song without knowing. They are already trolled, dudes.
that was a different artist, completely unrelated to this group.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/11/29/visual-kei-vs-vocaloids-miku-isnt-real-music/
Kattun here, Kattun there…
They are puppets of the industry and have shit saying in the matter…It’s not Kattun being at fault but the management, label and studio behind them…
They are an IDOL group…Whatever they do it’s the idea of the ppl in the background…They are nothing more than a mere Vocaloid…Someone writes the lyrics, someone makes the melody and they just sing and perform it…
Could you remove sing ..?
I am ready to bet that even their concert they do not sing all the songs but use playback
It is well known that those kind of band concert last for 3 or 4 hours with lot of crazy stuff
Kat-tun doesn’t lip sing , dammit ๐
money rule the world….
Stop bitting other peoples stuff. Cause when you get caught. You end up looking stupid.
I hope those girls have learned a valuable lesson in how stealing other peoples work is wrong.
KAT-TUN is a Boy band… lol
Some people don’t spend enough time with real girls to know the difference between a girly-man and a girl.
Sounds to me like the issue’s been resolved. Royalties for an homage song are a common thing anyway, it’s just a shame that whoever wrote it thought they would be able to do it without the internet coming after them. But whatever, no need to destroy a band over it as long as all those involved get paid and they are wary of it in the future.
When will I ever see a picture of a male Japanese musician without faggy hair?
Still better than K-Mushroom hair…
Forget about them. Every teenager in this country looks like Justin god damn Beiber now, and the haircut sucks. It not only sucks, they’re constantly doing that stupid head swish to get it out of their eyes. Their peripheral vision’s gone too. I saw one moron with that haircut walk into a pillar in a mall… or maybe he was just a moron. Either way it doesn’t make a good argument for that stupid haircut.
Does having an afro count as faggy hair?
sad but true guys with ‘good’ looking hair do usual get more girls though.
If that’s good looking hair, then that says more about the intelligence of teenage girls than anything about guys’ fashion sense. The hair constantly looks like bed-head and is disproportioning their head to their bodies half the time. At least Beiber has a woman stylist doing his damn hair each time so it looks like half a decent sculpture.
“His vagueness and apologetic tone can probably be taken as an indication that he received cash or royalties in return for keeping his mouth shut so as to allow KAT-TUN to escape with their image and sales intact.”
You might say that the KAT got his TUN (tongue). No? Eh, didn’t like the joke either, but I’m bored, so ๐
Either they just have no skill or they just want to be like Supercell.
Maybe they’re not lying with “KAT-TUN were not at fault.”
They don’t look bright enough to write a song by themselves.
..they’re IDOLS, why should they write their songs?
you don’t know a single thing about KAT-TUN so shut the hell up
you don’t know a shit about KAT-TUN
and they say Vocaloid is not real music? oh the irony
you sure they are boys? dont look like boys to me..
whut is kat-tun .. reminds me to CARTOON XD..
KAT-TUN is a popular Japanese idol group, lol. Their group name is actually an acronym of all their names
They did have a variety show called Cartoon KAT-TUN, though XD
who the fuck is KAT-TUN?
KAT-TUN Goukakyou no Jutsu… Grand Fireball Technique… lol
I didn’t even know about this band until this set of articles came up…
Now I can go back to not even caring what the hell a “KAT-TUN” is what so ever…
You contracted a worker to write a piece for you and you stick it into your book. It turns out a chunk of that is copied from some other book.
Granted there are still billions of book out there and you can’t check them all. You can claim it’s contracted out and you checked for plagiarism to the best of your ability yet you’d still have to pay under the law. You’re still guilty of copyright infringement.
Avtechno and Kat-tun guilty of copyright infringement wouldn’t change, they’d just be unintentionally/unknowningly infringing.
>There’s nothing wrong with AVTechno saying KAT-TUN weren’t at fault then, is it?
nothing wrong whatsoever. it wasn’t KAT-TUN’s fault because the group itself didn’t compose the infringing part, someone else (some guy named Hans Johnson) did. AVTechno recognized that. other people have yet to recognize that though…
There’s nothing wrong with AVTechno saying KAT-TUN weren’t at fault then, is it?
the police probably won’t do anything, since the situation resolved itself.
anyway, the guy who produced the song/”composed” the part that infringed on DYE isn’t even from Japan… doubt the Japanese police could go after him.
Question: Are Japanese Police going to do something about them? Or letting them go? Because those cops just arrest the others who “supposedly” infringe the copyright.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/01/19/2-arrested-for-modifying-figure/
good point.
but in this case the group doesn’t really get to choose. they were just given the song and told to sing it. I do agree that it would be unknowing infringement, but here’s the problem: do you blame the people that were simply told to sing the song, or the person who actually plagiarized (the composer)?
Now I can go back to not caring about what ever a KAT-TUN is what so ever…
Besides, I never heard of the band until this set of articles came up…meh…
I sure haven’t ever heard of them until this set of articles came up…
Well, the situation’s been resolved so I can go back to not paying whatever a KAT-TUN is any attention what so ever…
That’s a tuna for your cat.
some guys mods a toy a and go to jail for it, but these asshole steal a song and nothing happens to them. fucking japan
It’s called due diligence, or incompetency in other industries. As pointed out, they sing only what their producer gives them however as the band are entirely owned by their producers they are relatedly at fault.
Kat-tun itself as a band is at fault, the individual singers aren’t.
Yes, they made money out of it, but who said they KNEW it was copyrighted? How can someone be at fault if they don’t even realize the mistake of someone else entirely?
They tried to make money out of it. (selling it for 270.000 yen) Its stupid cause if they are at fault… what about all those doujins?
I fear Japan is gone nuts.
maybe something happened to the producer and the composer, the band is not at fault when all they do is sing what they’re given..
KAT-TUN: “and we’d have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling otaku!”
@demonhaseo Yes, that’s where it originates from.
“..what is the otaku version of scooby doo?”
You mean in moe version? Eri from Milky Holmes with dog ears and tail I guess..
Nice one Megi, oh and I’ve been meaning to ask your name’s Inspired from the almighty attack from the Shin Megami Tensei series right?
Same here. Gawd, that’s a classic!
I literally LOL’d for 10 minutes.
Best comment all day.
heres an interesting question… what is the otaku version of scooby doo? i mean the dog, not the whole cast… thought that would be funny too.
Your mom’s vagina.
I’d like to see all of you bashers and haters sing better than them!
You think you are better than them? What the f***?
If you don’t know anything about the group then why don’t you just shut up and keep your opinions to yourselves? Don’t be stupid.
Gay? Where did you find out? I want to see evidence that they are gay. Can’t find a solution to your stupid comment? Why don’t you ask them personally if they’re gay?
God. You guys are just so pathetic…
Actually, I’m not a fan of KAT-TUN at all. I just can’t stand all this hate when it’s not THEM who deserve it.
Oh? They admitted it? That’s probly the only thing “good” they’ve ever done.
Butthurt fangirl alert.
Moreover, how does one supposedly interested in Japan not know about KAT-TUN? Idiot.
Okay for one, who said they are trying to imitate any sort of music style? Only the makers of the music are the judge of that.
Two, they aren’t in the entertainment industry for competing against people, let alone people they probably haven’t even heard of. Opinions are opinions, and obviously you like your music so just leave it at that. KAT-TUN sing for their fans who love and support them, and is that not respectable to you?
THREE. Do NOT throw the words “emo” or “punk” around ignorantly. They are most definitely NOT either one of those.
Well KAT-TUN DOESN’T right their own music. Royalties or not, they really aren’t at fault…
why do people not listen, Kat-tun is a homo version of american boy band trash. these emo punks don’t stand shit against JAM project. now that’s music, not faggotty noises like what those copy cats make
KAT-TUN = Five Homo Gays
that’s cat-poon
Irony? More like… oxymoron.
They couldn’t rip off something with talent?
I have just changed my DNS to 8.8.8.8 and everything works.
Fuck those fuckers and their child-molester manager too
KAT-TUN? They just imitating the name K-ON just what China is doing do their imitated Japan like product.
what are you talking about?
they started out in 2001. K-ON! started in 2007. now who came first?
Ok I didn’t know that.
guys, don’t blame the band. I’m a fan of both and it might sound bias, but it’s not their fault. They don’t compose their own songs, and if they do, they’re not the ones who edit it. I doubt they even listen to vocaloid songs.
It’s shit like this people.