Hoshiai no Sora‘s production staff have delivered an official response to the allegations of plagiarism regarding the anime’s ending sequence.
Through their official Twitter account, the Hoshiai no Sora production committee apologized to both dancers involved and the committee claimed their ignorance of copyright to have caused this incident:
Concerning the ending animation of Hoshiai no Sora
In the process of creating the ending animation for this work, we did not attain affirmation beforehand with Merochin-sama and Miko Nanakawa-sama because we didn’t have sufficient awareness of copyright. We apologize for the trouble caused to you two. Thanks to the production staff and animators, as well as our expectations regarding this work, we were able to cooperate. In the future, we we will review the production system so that something like this never happens again. Thank you for continuing to support this work.
For those not familiar, accusations of plagiarism arose after it was found out that Hoshiai no Sora’s out of place ending sequence resembled the original dance moves performed by creators Merochin and Miko Nanakawa:
Looks to me like a mix of pretty standard moves you can on a dance floor anywhere. I’ll bet that a halfway decent editor could rearrange the steps without adding any new key-frames or in-betweens and make it look different enough that nobody could call plagiarism or copyright.
“Looks to me like a mix of pretty standard moves you can on a dance floor anywhere”
Then I would like you to dance in front of camera and then upload for all of us to see. Talking is cheap and easy. I’m sure you can’t even dance a quarter of what he dance. Here, the original of the whole thing:
youtube.com/watch?v=JjMkOTGEbiU
“LUL all yu ned to mak somtin is to see it.”
You fucking idiot, just because you know how something is done does not mean you can do it.
There is a reason people train for years to become average in a skill.
Per example: playing the chromatic scale on a violin is the simplest thing you can do with the instrument, do you seriously think someone with no experience playing the thing can pick one up and instantly get it correct?
Look like you intended to reply to @03:15 but hit a wrong button.
I agree with what you said completely. In the past I was watch some people play guitar and I was like “hmm, this interesting and looks easy.” So I brought a guitar and for a few days after that I still can’t play for s♥♥t and in the end I gave up on it.
how the heck is that standard for anybody? I can’t even dance to those kind of moves and those moves look like the “get lite” moves
the sequence of moves that s matter.
f♥♥k off you stupid, naive piece of s♥♥t, it was clearly copied and admitted, because fucking fujoshit staff are retarded always.
Why ate you so upset princess? Besides he is right, the dance moves look generic
If you think the dance moves are generic then I’m sure you can dance EXACTLY like that, right? 😉
@17:45
“Oh, this sushi have some fish in it so it is a generic meal!”
That’s not how it works, retard.
That’s now how it works shitter.
You can recognize a generic meal without being able to cook it.
more so the staff said they didn’t understand the copyrights were involved seriously a dance move is copyrighted? not a dance routine but a move mind you
Hey, but at least they came clean and apologized. Other companies plagiarize a very well known lion and when they ask they say “no, the fact that we named him Simba instead of Kimba and recolored him means nothing, it’s all a coincidence lmfao.”
if tez*ka os*mu didnt resurrect to sue me, STFU!!!
but if you are muricunts, these are free to copy. LoLLL
chinks
well, their court said so….
sad for bel-air, backpack kid and etc.
Good, culture should be shared, not kept behind a wall of copyright. Reminder that doujinshi are not technically legal or fair use under Japanese copyright law. Say what you want, but even our copyright system is superior to that of Japan.
I don’t know about the copyright system of Japan and how good it is, but it’s bold to claim that yours is superior when patent trolls are making money out of it. So much for sharing.
Patents are not the same as copyright, and even then a simple Google search would have showed you that patent trolls exist in Japan as well. It’s also worth noting that, unlike in Japan, uploading music won’t land you in jail stateside. That’s right, copyright infringement is a criminal offense in Japan.
They why do people pay for comics lol
I see the female dance was copied nearly verbatim. However, the dance moves of the male performer aren’t identical, but just similar. The gesture of swing the arm to left and right, a twist of the body, flinging the leg about, etc, can’t be copyrighted. It’s like trying to copyright the letter “a” then “b” then “c” – the individual moves you cannot claim (c). It’s the entire moveset you can hold copyright of, if it forms a coherent set of dance movements.
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