News Jaeguchi and other lyric video channels are stealing the copyrights to Kpop Songs (1 Viewer)

[AnotherKpopTrash]

I recently came across this video. The video cites many lyric videos from Jaeguchi that are being claimed by media companies, TheChopraWell and Viewster. These companies were fraudulently claiming the copyrights for many BTS lyric videos. The video also shows email receipts from popular lyric channel ZatyFarhani showing Jaeguchi inviting Zaty to join their network in order to monetize videos. This suggests Jaeguchi is somehow involved with TheChopraWell and Viewster. It is well known that YouTube's content ID system is very broken and there are loopholes media companies can use to abuse it.

The exact method in which TheChopraWell and Viewster are doing this is unknown as the story is still developing. But one possibility is that as media companies, they bought licenses for many songs. Much like how movie production companies can buy licenses for songs use them in their movies and claim copyrights are movie clips with those songs. Except in this case, the movies are lyrics videos. The media company can claim to have ownership of the visual portion of lyric videos are their own content and combined with the licenses they bought, can have full ownership of lyric video copyright claims as far as youtube is concerned.

The possible lyric channels that may be part of this network is also unknown. In the video, the person says millions are being made of this, which I think is extremely unlikely since he just took a particularly active BTS week on Jaeguchi's channel and extended it to year. But it's possible that 100,000s can be made off this network, so it's still a large operation.

 

[Ahsoka]

 

[eclipsoul]

i don't watch these videos anymore, stage mixes and line distributions are much more interesting. i noticed the outro song thing though, a few months ago i was watching a lyric video to a song written easily and it was like a minute longer than the actual song so i was wondering if there was like a different version and then it just turned out to be a random instrumental playing for the last minute

 

[Abeamus]

They're supposed to be making $4M a year and glad I moved to Spotify.

 

[AnotherKpopTrash]

i don't watch these videos anymore, stage mixes and line distributions are much more interesting. i noticed the outro song thing though, a few months ago i was watching a lyric video to a song written easily and it was like a minute longer than the actual song so i was wondering if there was like a different version and then it just turned out to be a random instrumental playing for the last minute

Yeah that's also a pretty scummy tactic. Though there's probably nothing legally wrong with that even though it is ethically wrong.

 

[AnotherKpopTrash]

They're supposed to be making $4M a year and glad I moved to Spotify.

I kinda doubt that massive number just because I know similar sized youtubers who upload more often that don't make nearly that much just from ad revenue. There are a lot of things like adblock which massively reduces initial estimates.

 

[Ashla_K]

Damn!!

 

[dooh]

i dont watch lyric vids anymore..

 

[wench]

i dont read the lyrics from jaeguchi cus its always wrong and rushed

the lines are always wrong too

i try to watch them from smaller channels but this is wrong

 

[TRAUMATHON]

that's so yucky of them to do wtf

 

[daesuki]

That's so rude. I used to watch Jaeguchi but their line distributions, translations, and lyrics were often wrong, so I stopping. It's still bad ew

 

[yeji]

a big yikes to them

 

[eclipsoul]

so after reading some posts here saying that jaeguchi's translations are wrong i thought i'd check that out and it's worse than i thought lmao

"t-shirts with nose on it" what is this even supposed to mean

 

[AnotherKpopTrash]

so after reading some posts here saying that jaeguchi's translations are wrong i thought i'd check that out and it's worse than i thought lmao

"t-shirts with nose on it" what is this even supposed to mean

Lmao yeah. They just try to post as fast as possible and get the algorithms to recognize them only in results.

 

[Darkseid]

Yeah their translations are always fucked coz it's always a race of who can upload the fastest and get the views.

I used to like Hamtaro Gasa but that channel hasn't uploaded in a while.

Usually I stick to line distribution channels like random_k (they do the lyrics plus line distribution in same vid, best channel, 10/10 recommended) and Hexagon, but for many B sides, Jaeguchi and the like are still the only option. It's a pretty scummy thing to do.

 

[AnotherKpopTrash]

Yeah their translations are always fucked coz it's always a race of who can upload the fastest and get the views.

I used to like Hamtaro Gasa but that channel hasn't uploaded in a while.

Usually I stick to line distribution channels like random_k (they do the lyrics plus line distribution in same vid, best channel, 10/10 recommended) and Hexagon, but for many B sides, Jaeguchi and the like are still the only option. It's a pretty scummy thing to do.

Yeah I wonder if this story is gathering steam

 

[Darkseid]

Yeah I wonder if this story is gathering steam

Jaeguchi posted a not that convincing explanation on his channel but Youtube is blocked at work so I can't post it here lol. Go to his channel and click on Community you should be able to see.