In a swift flip of occasions following Baek Yerin saying her track was plagiarized and the continued debate over that, she is now dealing with authorized motion from former The Volunteers member CLOUD for utilizing songs — that he produced, composed, and carried out — with out permission.
On October 4, Gureum’s company acknowledged, “We wish to tackle the latest difficulty with Folks Like Folks Co., Ltd. (PLP), which has been performing unauthorized works by our artist Gureum. This isn’t simply concerning the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials; we at the moment are able the place we should take acceptable actions.”
The company additional defined, “Gureum was beforehand a member of the band ‘The Volunteers,’ the place he led the manufacturing, composition, and efficiency of many songs. Though his unique contract with Blue Vinyl ended on February 28, throughout Gureum’s departure from The Volunteers, PLP unilaterally despatched a affirmation doc requesting the unauthorized free switch of neighboring rights and a waiver of rights to unreleased songs. After discussing with the artist, we rejected the request.”
They go on to clarify that since June 10, they’ve requested PLP a number of occasions to stop and desist, principally. Gureum’s facet claims they agreed at first, however continued to carry out the songs later, moreover saying that private gear was not returned
Thus, they’re taking authorized motion, together with defamation in opposition to on-line communities.
Because of this, Gureum’s company acknowledged, “To guard our artist’s rights and forestall additional incidents, now we have no alternative however to proceed with authorized motion.” They added, “We now have additionally confirmed that some communities have unfold false info, engaged in defamation, and made private assaults concerning the artist’s social media posts. We are going to take robust authorized motion in opposition to malicious commenters with out leniency.”
Lastly, the company expressed, “We hope this can assist right the business’s dangerous practices that undermine the worth of others’ inventive work and belongings. We’re dedicated to making sure that Gureum and plenty of different artists can proceed to provide nice music.”
CLOUD left The Volunteers again on March 21 after round 5.5 years with the band, and I suppose it wasn’t on the perfect phrases.
I do not know concerning the particulars of the case, however the timing of that is nearly too exceptional to be coincidental if the dispute hadn’t apparently been ongoing for months now.