Korean singer Ivy getting sued by Square Enix

[Yukito Kunisaki]

Ok, I found this out from two friends at Japankore.net:

Ok, recently a Korean pop singer name Ivy release a music video, which is a rip off from Advent Children church fight sequence, and Ivy is playing as Tifa. Know what is worse? She did the video without Square-Enix permission and she's making profit out of it, and that's never a good thing. Well, here's the excuse that the director of the video came up with:

"I couldn't find their numbers." was their excuse to this.

Anyways, Square is taking this issue to the court right now and they are suing that Korean music company for producing such things without permission. They're suing for plagiarism, copyright infringement, and defamation of character.

Oh and yea, I hate the video as well, Check it out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiM29NZtOeU

And they even got Turks wanna-B dancing in the background.

I found it pretty interesting, so I figure I would show it to you guys. :D

[CrossboneGundam]

I don't know what disgusts me more, Squeenix busting a nut over an homage or the loser fanboy kid who made the post you quoted.

[Yukito Kunisaki]

Edited his post so people who want to flame him like yourself will be happy over it.

[crow-kun]

I don't know what disgusts me more, Squeenix busting a nut over an homage or the loser fanboy kid who made the post you quoted.Homage!?!?!? It was a blatant ripe off.

[Michael]

Imitation is the highest form of flattery!

[soulreaper]

Homage!?!?!? It was a blatant ripe off.

Seriously. And that has to be the worst excuse ("I couldn't find their numbers") for a copyright infringement I have ever heard.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

I think this is a race thing. If she was Japanese no one would care.

[crow-kun]

I think this is a race thing. If she was Japanese no one would care.If they didn't ripe off a scene from a movie shot for shot without contacting square-enix no one would care.

[RPGQueen]

wow what a rip off. I hope square wins, that's bad. oh and the songs annoying too

[Rahxephon91]

It was a frigin parody. They even acknowledge that its based of AC in the video.

[Chousho]

This isn't a rip-off as much as a try at a recreation. They just failed at getting the rights to it.

But I'm going with Prons. If she was Japanese, I bet there wouldn't be the same scale of reaction. It seems some Western fans who are "all into Japan" don't like Koreans because some Japanese don't like Koreans. Think for yourself.

[Haro!]

I think this is a race thing. If she was Japanese no one would care.

My thoughts exactly. There tends to be strong anti-Korean sentiment in anime and video game fanboy circles. Unfortunately they don't know how hot your average Korean girl can be.

As far as the song goes, it is pretty lousy, even by Korean standards. I also found the video unwatchable.

[Hara!]

I don't know what disgusts me more, Squeenix busting a nut over an homage or the loser fanboy kid who made the post you quoted.

Seconded. Why? For people like this:

wow what a rip off. I hope square wins, that's bad. oh and the songs annoying too

Fanboys and fangirls.

[ryushe]

Interesting video...To bad she sounds terrible.

Edit: I wonder what would happen if the singer was Chinese...?

[germanturkey]

haha.. its a well made parody, but too bad they infringed copyrights..

[SonRyu]

The scene recreation itself was pretty good. I think Square Enix could let this one go though, this might actually serve as an advertisement for FFVII AC and increase Korean sales/imports of it.

[RPGQueen]

No they shouldn't due to mere copyright infringeent. any business would do the same and sue if it happened to them. I don't think it's due to racism it more of a business call.

[aoishonen7]

I Don't know if I should be angry or impressed...:unsure:

[Tidusauron12]

Homage!?!?!? It was a blatant ripe off.

The first 5 seconds of that video had me laughing, and that's all I watched. What a COMPLETE rip. I'm glad Square sued.

[Ikari Warrior]

The video was good, if not pointless. Doing the same thing with live actors as SE did with CG seems a bit daft to me. They get brownie points for the special fx, but lose them all by failing to secure the copyrights.

Also, the song sucked balls.

[RPGQueen]

The video was good, if not pointless. Doing the same thing with live actors as SE did with CG seems a bit daft to me. They get brownie points for the special fx, but lose them all by failing to secure the copyrights.

Also, the song sucked balls.

You say what I think yet can't put into words. dude are you connected to my brain or something?

[Solid_Snake]

Ok, recently a Korean pop singer name Ivy release a music video, which is a rip off from Advent Children church fight sequence, and Ivy is playing as Tifa. Know what is worse? She did the video without Square-Enix permission and she's making profit out of it, and that's never a good thing. Well, here's the excuse that the director of the video came up with:

"I couldn't find their numbers." was their excuse to this.

Anyways, Square is taking this issue to the court right now and they are suing that Korean music company for producing such things without permission. They're suing for plagiarism, copyright infringement, and defamation of character.

Oh and yea, I hate the video as well, Check it out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiM29NZtOeU

And they even got Turks wanna-B dancing in the background.

The most frightening part of this post is the fact he's ******** a brick over someone that's ripping off a crappy movie. And, the last few years, crappy game series.

Yes. That had to do with this topic.

[Rahxephon91]

I love it when people come into the FF forum only to say how crappy it is.

[Sendo Takeshi]

I love it when people come into the FF forum only to say how crappy it is.


Maybe because it's the FF forum?

[cris]

It is talk about FF and not praise FF forum.

[Rahxephon91]

Maybe because it's the FF forum?

So trolling it is ok?

I mean you guys got all riled up when someone said there was something wrong with MGS.

[Haro!]

Interesting video...To bad she sounds terrible.

Edit: I wonder what would happen if the singer was Chinese...?
The song would be ten times worse, not only would the video be a rip off, but the cameras and software used to shoot it would be bootleg as well as her clothing. And they'd sell DVDs of it on Canal street.

[GreatNekoKoneko]

The song would be ten times worse, not only would the video be a rip off, but the cameras and software used to shoot it would be bootleg as well as her clothing. And they'd sell DVDs of it on Canal street.

...you damn skippy. and i KNOW that you'd be buying them too. in fact, i think i saw you one day...

[Haro!]

Not in Canal St. Ill. I hate Chinese people (that's actually a joke that me and a flip girl have going)

On topic: I tried watching the song again. I couldn't. Ah maybe on mute.

[Sendo Takeshi]

So trolling it is ok?

I mean you guys got all riled up when someone said there was something wrong with MGS.


See, but Solid Snake's post wasn't a trolling attempt. There's bait in it, but it's not a trolling attempt.

And on our defense, the guy that got banned was trolling. Plain and simple. He came into the thread with no valid reason as to why the story sucked and the voice acting sucked. There's a difference. Then he goes off and starts flaming others and a mod, on top of all things.

I mean, you're welcome to try as well. You're the one that went ahead and picked out the LAST sentence. So what if he said that the FF series is crap(which it is these days), doesn't mean you gotta nitpick the last sentence and wanting to turn this into something bigger than what it is. At this point in time, your post before this one was a troll attempt.

[Tidusauron12]

See, but Solid Snake's post wasn't a trolling attempt. There's bait in it, but it's not a trolling attempt.

And on our defense, the guy that got banned was trolling. Plain and simple. He came into the thread with no valid reason as to why the story sucked and the voice acting sucked. There's a difference. Then he goes off and starts flaming others and a mod, on top of all things.

I mean, you're welcome to try as well. You're the one that went ahead and picked out the LAST sentence. So what if he said that the FF series is crap(which it is these days), doesn't mean you gotta nitpick the last sentence and wanting to turn this into something bigger than what it is. At this point in time, your post before this one was a troll attempt.

Read the thread title. Are you on topic at all?

I don't think that the producers of this video thought square would go outothe way to sue, but that's a mistake on their part. It may seem excessive to some, but I can see why Square was offended (the music vid. sucked ***).

[Sendo Takeshi]

Read the thread title. Are you on topic at all?




Care to read the other posts before mine before you jump the gun?

[crow-kun]

A comparison video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpCvsZNX4sk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ekotaku%2Ecom%2F)

Warning turn off the volume while watching the song is crap!!!!

[Solid_Snake]

I love it when people come into the FF forum only to say how crappy it is.

Let me quote you from another thread;

Dragoneer's Aria is a PSP rpg by Hitmaker. It wont be good.

Wow. Just, wow. You cry because I'm critisizing games that have been released, when you managed to do so with an unreleased game?

So trolling it is ok?

Yes. Aparently saying that I didn't like a game is trolling. You got me.

Though, in all technicality, I was baiting. If you hadn't noticed 90% of my posts bait. For some, unkown reason. This one being the nerd that the Topic Starter was quoting.

See, but Solid Snake's post wasn't a trolling attempt. There's bait in it, but it's not a trolling attempt.

And on our defense, the guy that got banned was trolling. Plain and simple. He came into the thread with no valid reason as to why the story sucked and the voice acting sucked. There's a difference. Then he goes off and starts flaming others and a mod, on top of all things.

I mean, you're welcome to try as well. You're the one that went ahead and picked out the LAST sentence. So what if he said that the FF series is crap(which it is these days), doesn't mean you gotta nitpick the last sentence and wanting to turn this into something bigger than what it is. At this point in time, your post before this one was a troll attempt.
He got banned? Awsome! He was a crazzy bugger. "MGS HAS A CRAZY STORY CUZ OF AMERICANS!!!".

[The Million Dollar Prons]

Wow, I must be the only person who liked the song.

But to be honest... I still say it's a matter of Japanese fans refusing to believe anything from any other asian country could possibly be good. But I figure everyone already knows my theory. No need for race trollin'.

Rocking Fur Elsie and Asian woman singing about tutti frutti = Win.

[Chousho]

He got banned? Awsome! He was a crazzy bugger. "MGS HAS A CRAZY STORY CUZ OF AMERICANS!!!".
What? I missed something. Who got banned?

[Sendo Takeshi]

What? I missed something. Who got banned?


CloudClone001. It was in that "MGS4 News...." thread.

[Ikari Warrior]

I love it when people come into the FF forum only to say how crappy it is.

I actually interpreted this post to indicate that the threads where people knock FF are more popular than the threads that praise it.

At any rate, even IF my interpretation were the "correct" one, I'm not knocking FF. I liked Advent Children, but I thought the music video was stupid for the reasons I'd listed already.

[Tidusauron12]

Care to read the other posts before mine before you jump the gun?

Alright, fine. ALL of you guys are off-topic then, but who cares, you're still off topic, and that's against the rules.

Hopefully people will be more careful about referencing content like that (though I think this was more than a reference). It did follow along the lines of FFVIIAC a little too closely.

[Michael]

Wow, I must be the only person who liked the song.

But to be honest... I still say it's a matter of Japanese fans refusing to believe anything from any other asian country could possibly be good. But I figure everyone already knows my theory. No need for race trollin'.

Rocking Fur Elsie and Asian woman singing about tutti frutti = Win.
Korean is next I feel comfortable with my Japanese! I don't like this song in particular though-- probably because I don't care for her voice.

[Solid_Snake]

Alright, fine. ALL of you guys are off-topic then, but who cares, you're still off topic, and that's against the rules.


And you're going off topic saying he was off topic.

Stop whining, and GTFO.

[Haro!]

Wow, I must be the only person who liked the song.

But to be honest... I still say it's a matter of Japanese fans refusing to believe anything from any other asian country could possibly be good. But I figure everyone already knows my theory. No need for race trollin'.

The song was bad and this is coming from a guy that has a Korean actress as his avatar.

[Tidusauron12]

The song was bad and this is coming from a guy that has a Korean actress as his avatar.

I hate alot of asian songs. I think female vocals in Japanese/Korean/Chinese can get a bit squawky (sound like they're blown up on helium). Sometimes, I think the guy vocals just get... weird. Still, I'd rather listen to Jrock or Krock rather than American crap.

Still, even so, this is one asian song that I can add to the list I don't like. It's just... weird.

[Haro!]

Sadly the few asian artists with good vocals don't get as much recognition as the ones with bad vocals.

[cris]

A lot of Asian Musicians, especially pop (well America too) have way too many effects on their voice.

[Chousho]

Effects on their voices?
Do you mean extra additions, or corrective ones?

I would definitely agree on the last. I've noticed some of the singers I have on CD are great, but when I see a live performance of them, it seems a bit...