With the gradual improvement of copyright awareness, everyone has reached the point of zero tolerance for plagiarism, whether it is novels, film and television dramas or songs, as long as it is related to plagiarism, it is basically cool, but even so, there are still many creators who are desperate to take risks, and recently singer Luo Cong has been exposed to plagiarism of Xu Song's songs.
At first, the controversy was caused by Luo Cong's song "Simple Happiness", a song from two years ago that recently did not know why it suddenly became popular on a short video website, but it did not take long to be pointed out that the melody was highly similar to Xu Song's "Why Not" released in 2009.
As mentioned earlier, netizens basically have zero tolerance for plagiarism, plus Xu Song is a lot of youth memories after the 90s, so Luo Cong's plagiarism of Xu Song caused public anger as soon as it was exposed, and many people accused Luo Cong of being a music tailor and asked him to apologize to Xu Song to eliminate the impact.
Soon after, Xu Song's brokerage company also paid attention to this matter, and also believed that Luo Cong's "Simple Happiness" and Xu Song's "What Is Not Much" were indeed similar, so as the copyright owner, they also said that they would submit the collected information to a professional organization for identification, and reserved all legal ways to safeguard Xu Song's rights.
Normally speaking, if there is such a controversy, the singer suspected of plagiarism will either admit to plagiarism and sincerely apologize to eliminate the impact, or resolutely deny that plagiarism and other professional departments will conduct appraisals, but Luo Cong and his company have joined forces to make a riotous operation.
Luo Cong's brokerage firmly denied plagiarism, saying that netizens were deliberately fabricating facts to maliciously slander Luo Cong, which is actually reasonable, after all, before the professional organization appraisal results came out, they could say anything, but compared to the company's statement, Luo Cong's own post was a bit confusing.
Luo Cong came up and threw the pot of depression, saying that he had been subjected to online violence because of "Simple Happiness", which also brought great harm to his friends and family, and the pressure of public opinion made him breathless. He also expressed his yin and yang strangely praying to God to see the grievances and sufferings he had endured.
If it will only sell miserable, in the interaction with netizens, he even shamelessly said that now short video websites are his songs, so he is more popular than Xu Song, this kind of speech is to make everyone angry without a fight, he is completely not ashamed but proud of the performance.
And Luo Cong's exposure to plagiarism is far from over.
Xu Song's fans here are still constantly defending their rights, and the fans of Eason Chan here can't sit still, and soon some netizens found that the prelude to Luo Cong's "Wounded City" and Eason Chan's "Love Transfer" is exactly the same as the middle sections, and the traces of plagiarism are too obvious, so is Luo Cong also going to say that you are more popular than Eason Chan?
From "Simple Happiness" plagiarizing "Why Not", to "Hurt City" plagiarizing "Love Transfer", in less than a week Luo Cong has two songs overturned, many netizens pointed out that Luo Cong's entire album has different degrees of plagiarism, I really don't know how many singers he has copied.
But then again, this kind of music plagiarism rights protection is actually very difficult, before the "music tailor" Li Yuanjie's "Leaving People Sad" was exposed to plagiarize many of Jay Chou's songs, but Li Yuanjie has not been affected by plagiarism allegations so far.
In May last year, singer Harry's "One Man Show" was accused of plagiarizing Zhang Jie's "He Doesn't Understand", and the composer also believed that his arrangement was plagiarized, but even sent a lawyer's letter and started legal procedures, but now more than half a year has passed, the matter is still fruitless, "One Man Show" can still be played normally on major music platforms.
However, no matter how difficult it is to protect rights, I hope that all creators must not easily let go of plagiarists, otherwise the phenomenon of plagiarism will only become more and more serious in the future.