The superstar starts from the termination of the contract

Chapter 754 Was Actually Plagiarized
how to say?

In fact, this matter has not caused a big sensation so far, only Lu Fan's fans are discussing this matter, and the other party has not yet come forward to declare this matter.

It's like this...

As we all know, every once in a while, a popular song will appear on Douyin.

It's not very popular, after all, apart from the platform of Douyin, it may not be heard in other places.

It can only be said that it is popular, because there are many netizens who use it as background music. Sometimes, after watching a few videos, you can at least hear a few songs that are currently popular in Douyin.

After the upsurge of popular songs some time ago passed, another song was born in recent days.

The name of this song is "Plain and Little Happiness", not to mention how good it sounds, it's just a bit brainwashing.

In addition, more people use this song as background music, and naturally more people follow suit, so this song has become so popular for the time being.

After all, there are not many mavericks, and everyone has a herd mentality.

Logically speaking, this matter has nothing to do with Lu Fan. Although his own songs are more popular in Douyin, it can't stop other people's songs from becoming popular too!
So that's why Lu Fan didn't know about it until now.

If the fans hadn't told him, it is estimated that he was busy making movies and making soundtracks, and it would take a little later to understand the cause and effect of the matter.

Why do you say that this popular song has something to do with Lu Fan?

Because some fans on Weibo and Douyin told him that Douyin's popular song "Plain and Little Happiness" was plagiarized!
It was Lu Fan's song!

"Why not"!
After Lu Fan heard the news, he naturally felt very strange. Countless fans told him this matter through private messages. Did he check them one by one? Anyway, what they said almost meant the same thing.

He quickly searched for this song on Penguin Music, and after listening to it, he didn't express anything immediately.

Then he went to Douyin again, and found one of the most popular videos in the work that used this song as background music, clicked in and watched it.

This video has more than 100 million likes and [-] to [-] comments.

The number of likes for the first comment has reached a terrifying 50.

He said this: "It can't be said that there is no relationship, it is exactly the same."

Just such a simple comment has won more than 50 likes from netizens.

To know the likes of comments, generally speaking, unless you push a lot, it is almost impossible to reach this six-figure number of likes.

Next, it should be Lu Fan's own fans who are seconding.

"Hahaha!"

"Fuck! One sentence tells the truth!"

"How do you look so good?"

"I'm speechless!"

"I beg the singer of the song to stand up and give an explanation!"

Then he liked the second comment, and he said this:
"What's wrong with ordinary and simple little happiness?"

This netizen put the connotations of these two songs together, and everyone immediately understood what it meant.

"Cow!"

"Tell me quickly, did you secretly go to make up lessons?"

"Plain and simple happiness, there will be no more loneliness, it just means, I hope you are happy."

"This... just sang it directly, without any sense of disobedience!"

"Folding flowers to the south of the Yangtze River, to the spring breeze and red wax, it just means, I hope you are happy."

In addition to the two comments with the highest number of likes, there are some comments that have also been strongly agreed by everyone.

"Good job, I would call it a music tailor."

"I just came over from Penguin Music, and I heard some sand sculptures say that "Why Not" is very similar to this song "Plain and Little Happiness". I immediately clicked a report."

"This... I have only heard that a son is like a father. When did someone say that a father is like a son?"

"As long as people with good ears can definitely hear the similarity between these two songs, although I'm not a professional musician, I just think it's plagiarized. Can someone come out and help me out?"

"It's also a bit similar to Lu Fan's "Not Calling Heroes"."

"Crack down on plagiarism and support originality."

At this moment, the crew has finished work, and Lu Fan has finished the soundtrack of "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", so he has nothing to do now, and is slowly flipping through these comments.

In addition to this video with more than 100 million likes, similar remarks appeared in the comment area of ​​almost this video with "Plain and Little Happiness" as the background music.

Especially the sentence, "It can't be said that they are unrelated, they are exactly the same", which can be seen in almost all comment areas.

Soon, Lu Fan quit Douyin. After all, he is also a professional musician, as long as he reads the scores a little, he can tell at a glance whether he has plagiarized or not.

Regarding the incidents of music plagiarism in recent years, there are actually endless streams.

Although with the strengthening of people's awareness of intellectual property rights, all aspects of copyright are doing well, of course, this road has a long way to go, and it is just the beginning.

But this does not prevent the occurrence of plagiarism.

In the summer of 2018, an ancient song almost became popular throughout Douyin. It can be said that the original singer made a lot of money, fame and fortune.

But later, this singer appeared on a show, and the judges asked him to perform the most basic common sense of music. He actually said aggrievedly on the stage: "I'm sorry, I really don't know about this."

Later, this ancient song was also exposed as plagiarized.

And he copied more than one song. At that time, netizens called this kind of person a music tailor.

Around the National Day, another well-known musician broke out that a certain singer's work was plagiarized. With the growing public opinion, the singer had to apologize in public.

That well-known musician has a fine tune almost every year, and some netizens even joked that his songs have increased the beer sales of night snack stalls and food stalls by half.

Now that this kind of thing has happened to Lu Fan himself, he was a little dumbfounded at first, but then he figured it out soon.

After all, he is so popular now, it is normal for someone to copy him.

However, every song is the painstaking effort of the musician, if there is plagiarism, then he must not be indifferent.

This is not for his own benefit, but for the development of the entire Chinese music scene.

When did plagiarism become something to show off?
Thinking back to the millennium, singers of various immortal levels launched a battle of the gods. At that time, it was the pinnacle of the Chinese music scene.

Now, but gradually lonely.

If there was such a big commotion this time and Lu Fan didn't express anything, it is estimated that these people will be even more rampant next time.

Lu Fan called Xu Qing, planning to let him deal with this matter through legal channels.

This kind of bad atmosphere must not be encouraged, it must be severely cracked down.

However, Lu Fan also has another plan. It is useless for both parties to argue whether there is plagiarism or not. Even if he can provide evidence, the other party will probably deny it.

So the two songs were handed over to a professional organization for evaluation, and after the results came out, they negotiated with the company behind the original song.

It doesn't have to make the other party pay any legal responsibility, at least stand up and make a statement, and apologize, right?

As for how to do it, it depends on the attitude of the other party.

"Sister Qing, I just saw the private message sent to me by fans. He said that someone plagiarized my "Why Not". Have you heard about this?" After Xu Qing answered the phone, Lu Fan asked directly road.

"Well, I've heard that too," Xu Qing responded, "I'm already contacting colleagues in relevant departments to deal with it. I'll do this kind of thing. You can make a movie."

As an agent who has been in the industry for many years, it is not uncommon for her to see such things as plagiarism, and it is no surprise to her.

After all, there have been many cases before.

"I've been busy making movie soundtracks for the past few days. If fans hadn't sent me private messages, I wouldn't have known about it." Lu Fan's attitude was relatively correct, and this kind of thing was absolutely not allowed to happen.

"You have seen many similar things before, but you didn't expect it to happen to you this time?" Xu Qing asked with a smile.

"Yes," Lu Fan said helplessly, "By the way, sister Qing, generally speaking, how will this matter be handled in the end?"

"According to the normal situation, it is nothing more than a public apology, and then lose money." Xu Qing also knows that this kind of matter needs to be taken seriously, but it is relatively simple to deal with, and only needs colleagues from the legal department to implement it.

Therefore, she didn't want to devote her energy to this kind of thing.

Lu Fan suddenly had an idea: "Sister Qing, you said that we should take advantage of this incident and announce to everyone the establishment of an anti-plagiarism fund to protect the rights and interests of us musicians. What do you think?"

Xu Qing was taken aback, she never expected that Lu Fan would have such an idea, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems that such a proposal is not bad.

However, she still expressed her worries: "It's definitely good for you to have such an idea, but have you considered it clearly? With your own strength, it is absolutely impossible to complete this matter."

"I know." In fact, just now Lu Fan has been thinking about how to properly handle this matter. If he just asked the other party to stand up and apologize, it seems that his handling was too weak.

It was far from meeting the expectation in Lu Fan's heart.

But if you want to make a big fuss about this matter, it seems to be a bit of a fuss. If the other party admits that all these actions are inappropriate and apologizes in public, what else can you say?
In addition, regarding some related compensations, this is not the true meaning of Lu Fan's firm opposition to plagiarism.

That's why Lu Fan made such a suggestion to Xu Qing.

"I know that I can't complete this mission alone." Although Lu Fan's tone was smirking, he felt that this kind of thing was quite solemn, "But we can take the lead first. I believe that those who really make music people will definitely support us.”

"Lu Fan, it's really great for you to do this," Xu Qing is already in charge of Zhengming Entertainment, so no matter what she does, she must consider the overall situation. Now it's not like a few months ago, she just needs to be in charge of Lu Fan.

"If such an anti-plagiarism fund organization is really established, you will have to pay for all the money yourself in a short period of time." Xu Qing expressed her worries, "Besides, I don't know whether this matter will succeed or not, and it will end up being wasted Don’t talk about money, it’s thankless.”

In fact, these things Xu Qing said should be faced seriously, but Lu Fan feels that it is still possible to do something meaningful when he has this ability.

What is there to say?

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

After all, he has a system, and becoming a world superstar is the ultimate goal, but can't he seek some benefits for the artists?

Besides, everything he did was just as it should be.

"Sister Qing, I have considered all the things you said, but I still want to try. I think if there is a real improvement, more people will join in."

Xu Qing sighed inwardly, and said, "That's fine, let's settle this matter first, and then I'll help you."

"sorry to bother you!"

……

Since Lu Fan paid attention to this matter, he would go to Douyin to have a look almost every night. So far, the song "Plain and Little Happiness" has been used by more and more users. The hottest song in the music is not an exaggeration.

However, there are more and more voices about plagiarism. Some music bloggers even sang these two songs together without any sense of disobedience.

In other words, netizens feel that this song is plagiarized, and no evidence is needed to point it out.

However, the original singer of "Plain and Little Happiness" has not yet come out to explain anything.

Because Xu Qing is asking her colleagues in the company to investigate, she has not issued any statement so far.

That night, Xu Qing informed Lu Fan that his colleagues had found conclusive evidence that the other party had indeed plagiarized.

In the afternoon, Zhengming Entertainment's official Weibo posted a statement:
"Recently, our company discovered that the song "Plain and Little Happiness" (singer Liu Ming) is similar to part of the melody of the song "Why Not" composed by our artist Mr. Lu Fan, and immediately began to collect relevant information, and compared the two songs A sheet music comparison was performed.

After comparison, our company found that the two songs do have some similar melodies. For the reputation and rights of Mr. Lu Fan, our company will send these two songs to a professional evaluation agency for appraisal.

At the same time, our company will take all legal means to guarantee and maintain the copyright of Mr. Lu Fan's music works. "

As soon as Weibo was posted, it immediately caused an uproar.

Now that Lu Fan's agency, Zhengming Entertainment, has issued such a statement, almost all the comments on the Internet about plagiarism can be confirmed.

Soon, this Weibo was topped by netizens. After all, Lu Fan himself has a hot search system, and almost all the news related to him can undoubtedly be on the top of the Weibo hot search list ten.

An hour later, Zhengming Entertainment's Weibo had 15 forwards, [-] comments, and [-] likes.

"Reject plagiarism and support originality."

"I think this singer is really smart. Brother Lu's song "Why Not" is so popular, yet he copied it so blatantly."

"Borrowing a sentence from Douyin, it can't be said that it has nothing to do with it, it's exactly the same!"

"I just came from Douyin. These two songs are mixed together. To be honest, I forgot how to sing."

"Things have come to this point, isn't the singer coming out to clarify?"

"What does he have to clarify? Could it be that I'm sorry, I did plagiarize, and I shouldn't have done it?"

"How should I put it, it seems that he didn't write the lyrics and music. I think it must be the agency company behind him."

Another hour passed, and the number of comments had reached 11, and the number of retweets had reached [-].

This Weibo gradually went from No.7 to the second most searched Weibo.

At this moment, almost everyone on Weibo is discussing this matter. As long as the mobile phone is connected to the Internet, it can be said that almost no one is ignorant of this matter.

However, even though there was such an uproar on Weibo, the singer Liu Ming and the agency behind him still didn't come forward to give everyone an explanation.

Later, the netizens couldn't take it anymore, and one by one ran to the Weibo of "Simple Little Happiness" singer Liu Ming, pointing out bluntly, what's wrong with Lu Fan who plagiarized, should he stand up and make it public? sorry?

Of course, most of them are Lu Fan's fans, and everyone is rational.

There are also some passers-by who can't stand it. Although they posted similar comments under Liu Ming's Weibo, the meaning is similar to everyone's. Let him announce this to everyone. After all, plagiarism is shameful.

Every song is the fruit of the labor of these musicians, and others are resolutely not allowed to plagiarize at will.

Apart from denouncing singer Liu Ming on Weibo, Phoenix Music, the management company behind Liu Ming, naturally cannot escape the responsibility.

If Liu Ming just obeyed the company's arrangement, then the culprit behind this is undoubtedly Phoenix Music!

Phoenix Music has not given any statement yet, but a few days ago, it did a simple promotion for another artist under the company, and there were not many likes and comments. At this time, Lu Jiajun killed it all at once.

"About plagiarism, why don't you stand up and talk about it?"

"What kind of company can cultivate this kind of music ghost tailor?"

"Brother upstairs, you are really talented. You have come up with such an awesome word like music ghost tailor!"

Originally, everyone was just discussing the relationship between mediocre happiness and why not, but this Weibo was just to promote another singer's work. I didn't expect that even she would suffer.

"Is it plagiarism? If not, I won't listen to it. After all, I don't believe in your music taste."

"I finally know why the title of the song is "Plain and Little Happiness". You see, it takes a long time and a lot of effort to write an original song, but you are plain, just take it directly. Feel the happiness in your creation!"

Comments similar to this kind of cynicism, or directly scolding plagiarism, almost one after another, made these Weibo, which seemed very cold on weekdays, become extremely lively.

Afterwards, Phoenix Music couldn't stand the pressure from all sides, and finally stood up and released a statement.

It's just that everyone didn't expect it to say that...

(End of this chapter)