Four songwriters (Audrey Armacost, Aidan Rodriguez, Adam Gokcebay, Michael Campanelli) have sued NewJeans, ADOR, and HYBE, alleging that they plagiarized the song “How Sweet” from a demo they sent them …
Read More »GOBELINS to explore legal action against Mystic Story over AI-related plagiarism involving Billlie’s comeback
As you may unfortunately remember, the comeback teasers for girl group Billlie had recently come under fire from fans, netizens, and the creators of French short film Niccolo alike for …
Read More »[Update] Mystic Story CEO defends AI art before backtracking amid AI plagiarism allegations that their concept for Billlie took its art style from ‘Niccolo’
Mystic Story is in the midst of shooting themselves, and unfortunately Billlie, in the foot. The company recently released a teaser with an expectedly convoluted title of Cartography Of The …
Read More »[Update] Details of Min Hee Jin’s legal victory over HYBE revealed, includes convo with BTS’s V as supporting evidence
Back to the Min Hee Jin and HYBE (and everybody else involved) legal mines, where details from the court’s ruling have been revealed, including evidence that caused a mess involving …
Read More »Min Hee Jin wins ~$18 million stock option lawsuit against HYBE, court mostly accepts her arguments
Back to the legal mess mines with a major update in the NewJeans/Min Hee Jin/ADOR/HYBE case, as courts ruled in favor of Min Hee Jin regarding her put option to …
Read More »An attempt to do a brief HYBE/ADOR/Min Hee Jin/NewJeans catchup post before 2025
Recent events in South Korea really drive home just how insignificant entertainment updates can be, and due to the ongoing mourning period, the appropriate dearth of updates out of the …
Read More »SBS’s ‘UNIVERSE LEAGUE’ under fire for similarities of “Prison” to VIXX’s “ERROR” and others
SBS survival show UNIVERSE LEAGUE has been beefing with fandoms (primarily VIXX‘s) over their mission song called “Prison” for a couple weeks now. I didn’t really notice it a ton …
Read More »[Update] ADOR release rebuttal of NewJeans’ plagiarism allegations + Dispatch detail the formation of NewJeans again, ADOR dispute it, Source dispute ADOR
You know it’s lean times in the HYBE/ADOR mess when it’s about the stuff in this post, but hey, updates are updates, right? ====== Following the plagiarism allegations against NewJeans’ …
Read More »Wise Music Group claims NewJeans’ “Bubble Gum” infringes on Shakatak’s “Easier Said Than Done”, ADOR denies
In news that’s annoying but also funny as hell given the context, ADOR has released a statement denying plagiarism after Wise Music Group sent an official Letter Of Claim last …
Read More »HYBE called out by artist for allegedly plagiarizing their artwork for virtual girl group SYNDI8
Supertone, an AI tech company owned by HYBE, recently launched virtual girl group SYNDI8. Subsequently, they found themselves under fire because one of the group’s members uses the same characters, …
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