In just two or three days, on many online social media platforms in China, such as the bib and prestige video accounts, as well as video platforms such as Douyin, Fast Beast, Bizhan and Xiaohongshu, Jiang Qin's cover version of "Wanjiang" has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

Among them, there are not only covers by Internet celebrity bloggers, but also covers by other small stars. Whether they sing well or not, they have gained several times more traffic than usual.

Especially those who have a relatively good singing level, they have tasted the sweetness and received a lot of praise from netizens.

After that, there was even a singer named Yang Wang who sang the song directly at a celebration party on a local station.

This time, however, it has sparked some controversy over copyright.

After Yang Wang finished singing, he returned backstage and began to accept the reporter's live interview.

Yang Wang, who faced the camera, was radiant, obviously not yet recovered from the audience's enthusiastic feedback just now.

The reporter pointed the microphone at Yang Wang and asked, "May I ask Mr. Yang Wang, did you have any contact with Jiang Qin himself before singing tonight's song "Wanjiang"?" ”

Hearing this question, Yang Wang subconsciously replied: "No, no, I have never been in contact." ”

The reporter was stunned, in fact, his subtext was to ask Yang Wang if he had obtained permission to sing Jiang Qin's songs publicly. And the other party seems to mistakenly think that he is a gossip reporter, and the purpose of asking this question is to dig up some scandals and find out the relationship between the two of them, so he denies it categorically.

As a highly qualified journalist, he felt that he was underestimated by Yang Wang.

After laughing awkwardly, he pointed out more bluntly: "So you mean, haven't you obtained Jiang Qin's performance authorization yet?" ”

This time it was Yang Wang's turn to be stunned. He didn't even ask about it, and it was also his agent's idea to let him sing this song at the celebration.

As we all know, if it is without the authorization of the original creator, as long as it involves covering other people's original songs to make a profit, it is regarded as an infringement.

Therefore, strictly speaking, those who cover on online video platforms are already infringing, not to mention that Yang Wang, who directly performs at the celebration party of the local station, is even more seriously infringing.

Before Yang Wang could think about how to answer, Yang Wang's agent, who was guarding the side, directly stood up and interrupted the reporter's interview.

"I'm sorry, but that's outside the scope of our interview."

The agent couldn't lie directly to the live broadcast camera and say that he had been authorized, because in that case, it was likely to be exposed by Jiang Qin himself, and it would be even more irreparable.

Now block the problem back first, in order to prevent any more moths, you can go to Jiang Qin privately to negotiate the authorization afterwards, maybe at that time, you will be more passive and have to bleed.

But now it's too late to regret it, who made him want to take advantage of the loophole to pick up this cheap? I can only consider myself unlucky.

The main reason is that he saw many people cover Jiang Qin's song before, and no one seems to mention the licensing, so he thinks that his own artists can just sing it without getting a license, and save tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of licensing fees. He just wanted to gamble his luck.

It's just that his artist was caught by a reporter when he was covering it, which made things a little complicated.

But the reporter who was blocked back was not so easy to dismiss, and immediately smelled a trace of something unusual. If Yang Wang did not get the authorization, then after this matter broke out, it would definitely attract huge attention from the society, after all, Yang Wang is also a relatively prominent second-tier artist, and Jiang Qin's song is a big hit song that everyone is listening to at the moment.

Then as he himself who excavated the explosive news, his popularity and value in the entertainment industry will also rise. There is no reason not to take this opportunity anyway.

He looked at the live camera and asked forcefully: "To perform Jiang Qin's songs on stage, you need to obtain her own authorization, which is a topic that is very close to this interview." Could it be that your artists are directly used for stage performances without authorization? ”

At this time, the audience in the live broadcast room was also caught off guard by the mouthful of melons that were accidentally stuffed into their mouths.

"I'll go, what's the situation?"

"Isn't it! Yang Wang's cover is infringing? ”

"Brother Wang, don't! I don't want to collapse the house! [Cover your face]"

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, if there is no infringement, it will definitely answer normally [witty]"

"Then does Yang Wang himself know? I'm more concerned about this [eating melon]"

"What a dick this reporter is! A true warrior, dare to face the evil dragon, admire and admire! ”

"This damn agent, it is estimated that Yang Wang was cheated by him [angry]"

"Don't rush to conclusions, let's take a look, I believe that Yang Wang's person is [shedding tears]"

"The singing is very good, but the infringement is wrong! [Dog's Head]"

"If this is true, we have to publicly apologize to Jiang Qin and compensate for the infringement costs before it can be over."

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Because it was Yang Wang's live interview, in addition to ordinary netizens, a large part of the audience were his fans, and when these fans learned that Yang Wang might be involved in infringement, they sweated for him in their hearts, worried that this matter would make a big deal and damage Yang Wang's reputation and even his lifelong career.

Just when everyone was disagreeing, the agent couldn't answer the reporter's question, so in a hurry, he went over and cut off the live broadcast screen at once.

Many netizens who watched the live broadcast behind the screen were even more confused by this operation.

After reacting, everyone realized that Yang Wang was very likely to constitute a de facto infringement, although it was not certain whether it was his original intention, but it was indeed a problem.

After watching the live broadcast, everyone ran to the scarf to talk about it, and as more and more people participated in the discussion, that night, Yang Wang's cover of "Wanjiang" was on the hot search.

And a number of media accounts are following up on the incident.

Because there are a large number of artists and Internet celebrity bloggers who have covered Jiang Qin's songs in the past few days, after Yang Wang's cover infringement became a hot search, other people who have covered it have also been compared and discussed by netizens, and everyone is speculating whether these people are the same as Yang Wang, who have not taken authorization from Jiang Qin.

Netizens directly mentioned the names of those people in the comment area of the popular news, and even manually touched them and asked them to come out and respond.

Many netizens are saying that if this is true, then these people are bad artists or bad Internet celebrities.

After paying attention to the rumors of this incident on the Internet, these people who have covered "Wanjiang" are a little panicked. They can be noticed by the majority of netizens, and they all have a certain degree of popularity. If in the end, because of this incident, their good future and thriving career are ruined, it will be too worthless.

To this end, they have each figured out a response plan, and even some people with a sense of urgency are already asking public relations companies to help analyze and publicize.