Billboard of "BTS" No. 1 song "Butter" for 7 consecutive weeks, BIGHIT MUSIC side "No problem in terms of rights" due to plagiarism suspicion surfaced

The hit song "Butter" of the boy group "BTS" was involved in plagiarism allegations. Allegations were raised that they were similar to the two songs, including Japanese game BGM and Dutch musician songs. BIGHIT MUSIC of the management office is in the position of "a song without any copyright problems".
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Recently, the introduction of "Butter" of "BTS" is similar to the BGM of the game "Monster in My Pocket" produced by Japanese game company "KONAMI" in 1992. As a result, posts raising allegations of theft were posted one after another.

Kozo Nakamura, a Japanese former member composer who composed the BGM for "MONSTER IN MY POCKET", left an article on his blog on the 20th of this month and revealed his position. ..

He shared a link to an article in the media dealing with plagiarism allegations, saying that he knew about "BTS" but didn't know about "Butter." At the same time, he said, "I think a similar melody came out by chance," and showed a reaction that it was "interesting." Kozo Nakamura explained that the rights to this song belong to the game company.

It was also pointed out that "Butter" is similar in some phrases to the song "You Got Me Down", which was released in March last year by Dutch former member musician Luca debonaire. It's also a situation. Under these circumstances, it has been reported that the Luka Debonair side recently posted a post stating that they started negotiations while searching for the contact information of "BTS" management office BIGHIT MUSIC through SNS, and discussions are increasing.

Luca Debonair claims to have purchased the melody part of the pop line written on "Butter" from Sebastian Garcia, one of the composers of "Butter", in 2019. .. This raised not only plagiarism allegations, but also the copyright issue of "Butter" on Hot Topic.

"Butter" is an English song of the dance pop genre released by "BTS" in May. He became the number one hit song on the Billboard single chart "HOT100" for seven consecutive weeks. The list of co-composers includes foreign composers Sebastian Garcia, Rob Grimaldi, Stephen Kirk, Ron Perry, Jenna Andrews, Alex. Alex Bilowitz and member RM of "BTS" were on the list.

On the afternoon of the 22nd, BTS'management office BIGHIT MUSIC announced its official position on plagiarism allegations and copyright issues.

BIGHIT MUSIC said, "We have confirmed that there are no copyright issues related to'Butter'", but "after all the authors have confirmed that there are no problems with the songs, the final work and release As a song, there is still no problem in terms of rights. "

However, he said, "I am aware of allegations that there are problems related to copyright." Even so, he said, "However, I would like to say that the rights of the sound source remain the same and belong to'Butter'."