#svensprink

BBCs - if you can, please comment/tweet at Svensprink for clarification of the licensing status. 

It might be a legal use, it might be copyright infringement... we just don’t know yet. Even if it’s infringement, it’s probably not worth going to court (fair use defense, lack of damages since it’s not very popular, foreign jurisdiction, etc.). The best thing BBCs can do is raise awareness on social media.

Block B’s Toy, released April 10, 2016

SVENSPRINK’s Megafon, released November 4, 2016

This is Block B’s Toy (link), and this is his song Megafon (link). 

Svensprink was made aware of the plagiarism by May 9, 2017, when he deleted the song from his Youtube channel (see more here). However, he has apparently refused to stop selling the song, claiming he got scammed by his producer (source). That is irrelevant - a dispute with his producer does not excuse his continued sale of a song containing music that he now knows is stolen. 

BBCs, please ask this guy to remove Megafon from music retail platforms like iTunes, Amazon, Google, etc. 

Leave a review on his album Anders all ihr pointing out the plagiarism.

To review on iTunes, you need to look him up on the iTunes store app

Google Play link

SVENSPRINK

Svensprink, the German artist who used Toy’s instrumental for his song Megafon, claims that he was scammed into buying the beat. (Source). 

Although he deleted the MV, the song is still available for purchase online. Even if he was truly scammed, he has now been made aware of the infringement and needs to take the song down. 

RYAN SAGE

This is the beat producer from whom Svensprink allegedly purchased the plagiarized instrumental. The Toy-like beat in question was uploaded to Youtube on April 14, 2016, just days after Toy was released. There’s no way he could have gotten a license in 4 days even if he tried.

Ryan Sage sells tracks on his website (http://www.ryansage.net) for licenses costing $30-$200, and producer credits.

Check out this VERY sketchy disclaimer on Ryan Sage’s website:

If one purchases a beat containing a sample/sampled hook, it is not my (The Producer Ryan Sage) responsibility to attempt any sort of sample clearance what so ever. If you feel the need to clear a sample for your intended use of the beat, it is your (The Recording Artist) and/or your publisher/record labels responsibility to do so.

So he admits he samples preexisting songs and sells sampled tracks likely without a license...

Maybe that tututu thing is a sample that is not created by Block B but they only incorporated in Toy.

Yep, that’s definitely a possibility, and something Zico did use samples on SMTM. (Source)  That’s why it’s important that BBCs ask Svensprink for clarification and get Seven Seasons/KQE’s attention.