Vocaloid Plagiarist Band KAT-TUN Admits Crime
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 20, 2011 06:01 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Copyright, Crime, Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka, Music, Plagiarism
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.
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and they say Vocaloid is not real music? oh the irony
who the fuck is KAT-TUN?
Your mom's vagina.
that's cat-poon
KAT-TUN = Five Homo Gays
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
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.
Moreover, how does one supposedly interested in Japan not know about KAT-TUN? Idiot.
Butthurt fangirl alert.
Oh? They admitted it? That's probly the only thing "good" they've ever done.
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.
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...
KAT-TUN: "and we'd have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling otaku!"
I literally LOL'd for 10 minutes.
Best comment all day.
Same here. Gawd, that's a classic!
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.
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?
"..what is the otaku version of scooby doo?"
You mean in moe version? Eri from Milky Holmes with dog ears and tail I guess..
@demonhaseo Yes, that's where it originates from.
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
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..
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.
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?
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.
That's a tuna for your cat.
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...
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 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...
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/
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.
There's nothing wrong with AVTechno saying KAT-TUN weren't at fault then, is it?
>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...
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.
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)?
KAT-TUN Goukakyou no Jutsu... Grand Fireball Technique... lol
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
Irony? More like... oxymoron.
you sure they are boys? dont look like boys to me..
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 shit about KAT-TUN
you don't know a single thing about KAT-TUN so shut the hell up
"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 :P
When will I ever see a picture of a male Japanese musician without faggy 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.
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.
Does having an afro count as faggy hair?
Still better than K-Mushroom hair...