Do most Kpop groups just plagiarize songs?

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Well they've been known to plagiarize song titles.

are these actually proven as plagiarism in court?

otherwise, they are just similar not plagiarized.

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are these actually proven as plagiarism in court?

otherwise, they are just similar not plagiarized.

I never seen any real artist that are mentioned make a case against the kpop side, but maybe it's just me that have a less knowledge for this.

Also it's kinda not a black and white situation? Because for some songs, it turns out that they "bought" the songs, or they had the same producers, or they bought a rejected songs that are made with some artist in mind. Or it simply sounds similiar because they use the same chord progression.

Not to mention that many kpop fans will exaggerate everything...

Every song released sounds similar to some previous song lol. Humans have been making songs for thousands of years, we've probably created a trillion songs as a species since Adam and Eve. Which means chord progressions, notes and entire riffs/melodies will all be repeated many many times in many many different songs.

Most groups do not write their own songs. They will just sing the song given to them, that their company owns the rights to.

Many songs are quite similar to other songs, but you wouldn't call it plagiarized. But some Korean composers have plagiarized a song that they claim that they wrote. It is not common, but does happen. When this happens its usually some not well known composer that they plagiarized.

Just like there are programs that can rate how well a song will do, which definitely Western companies use and I am sure Korea companies use, there are most likely programs that evaluate if a song is "plagiarized" or not.

Some kpop groups just remake past popular songs for easy hits.

tell me you are new to pop music without telling me u are new to pop music. Name any pop music that is completely original from the past decades

Tbh it's quite disenchanting. It turns out that small agency also means having small in creativity.

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Some kpop groups just remake past popular songs for easy hits.

I think there is more honor in that as the OG artist will get some royalty money and they have to give contest for the remake.

I think that's a problem with general pop genre.

If you listen to popular songs of the past few years, they all melt into each other without anything really standing out.

If pop music sounds original people won't listen. Successful pop songs have to sound familiar. It is impossible not to plagiarize, given the constraints producers have to work under.

Yes, they remake songs that are big in America. it's not a stretch to say most kpop songs are copies of songs in America, they probably haven't gotten sued because these western labels don't pay attention to the whole of k-pop, maybe just the big acts, so most of it goes undetected, but some songs I wonder how they didn't get sued.