On November 29, some media broke the news that singer Li Yuchun's song "Priceless Sister" was suspected of plagiarism and published a first-instance ruling, and the court rejected the "jurisdiction" objection raised by the defendant Li Yuchun Company.
"Priceless Sister" wants to come to many people have long been no stranger, the popular lyrics, full of rhythmic melody, especially through the popular variety show "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" as the theme song to promote, so that Li Yuchun's song earned enough eyeballs, not only many stars have followed the trend to imitate the dance movements in the song, the second Tencent Music Entertainment Festival is to take this song as the "Annual Top Ten Golden Melody Award" song.
Even some official media have launched many self-directed and self-acting versions of "Priceless Sister" to promote women's culture and promote positive energy.
It may be that the song is not much, it is this "Priceless Sister" that makes Li Yuchun eat a lawsuit.
Composer Dong Henan appealed to the court, saying that Li Yuchun's "Priceless Sister" was suspected of plagiarizing his original song "Follow Me", asking a platform to delete some of the audio about "Priceless Sister" and asking Li Yuchun's company to stop the infringement.
In the end, Dong Henan claimed 2 million yuan, on the grounds that the infringement caused economic losses to himself.
"Follow Me" is actually a very famous song, as the theme song of the CCTV variety show "Happy China Trip", the host Dong Qing has sung, which is the memory of many people when they were young.
And listen carefully to the melody and lyrics of "Follow Me", it is really too similar to "Priceless Sister", especially the last lyrics, at least ten seconds of melody almost exactly the same as Li Yuchun sang.
So this time Dong Henan said that he was plagiarized, and it is really not a "rubbing heat" to touch porcelain Li Yuchun.
It is worth mentioning that Li Yuchun's response is also very interesting, in response to the court's defense, Li Yuchun did not say about plagiarism, but accused Dong Henan of saying that he could not prove that his "Follow Me" work was a work that had been published and disseminated online, according to the expression in "copyright or neighboring rights", the infringed should belong to "online publication or dissemination of works", so Li Yuchun felt that Dong Heronan's prosecution was unreasonable.
Moreover, Li Yuchun also mentioned that Dong He's assertion of "right of authorship, reproduction, and distribution rights" was beyond the scope of the jurisdiction of the Beijing Internet Court, saying that the Beijing Internet Court had no jurisdiction and requested to go to the grass-roots court where Li Yuchun was located for trial.
However, the court did not adopt Li Yuchun's claim for "jurisdiction", perhaps the court felt that Li Yuchun was a bit unreasonable, or felt that Li Yuchun was "catty" in the local court, so it did not agree.
At present, Dong Henan, as a well-known musician, is beyond reproach for maintaining the copyright of his own works, but asking for 2 million is really a bit of a lion's mouth, and Li Yuchun did not admit to plagiarism, the court did not rule on plagiarism, and in the end no one knows, but I think li Yuchun If he is really confident, he should fight back against Dong Henan from the perspective of "originality", rather than saying that the other party's work is not published online, whether the other party can prove that the work has been published online, and others should not copy.
So I think Li Yuchun's first response is a bit inconsistent with his own identity, his own songs, what he is afraid of, he confronts the other party in person, in which court is his own reason, saying that what other useless ah, right.