{"id":677696,"date":"2026-11-07T12:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T12:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/677696\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T12:52:17","slug":"stray-kids-label-jyp-entertainment-brings-lawsuit-over-stolen-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/677696\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray Kids Label JYP Entertainment Brings Lawsuit Over ‘Stolen’ Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJYP Entertainment, the Korean music conglomerate behind K-pop sensation Stray Kids<\/a>, is suing an upstart DIY distributor for allegedly uploading a pirated recording to streaming services.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Wednesday (Nov. 4) lawsuit, obtained by Billboard, focuses on the June solo track \u201cback to life\u201d by Stray Kids member HAN. JYP Entertainment (JYPE) is accusing OneSync Music of re-uploading a version of the song taken from YouTube in order to \u201cprofit from the track performed by HAN and stolen from JYPE.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tAccording to the lawsuit, JYPE first put out \u201cback to life\u201d on YouTube via a prerelease music video in May. Just days later, it appeared on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube under the artist profile \u201cyungzzz,\u201d scrubbed of JYPE\u2019s original copyright management data.<\/p>\n

\n\tJYPE says it determined from YouTube metadata that the recording was put on streaming services by Hitmaker Music Group, an indie distributor that operates in partnership with Warner\u2019s Atlantic Records and 10K Projects. JYPE says it then got in touch with Hitmaker, whose lawyers allegedly identified a man named Miles Gaines as the owner of the \u201cyungzzz\u201d distribution account.<\/p>\n

\n\tGaines is a Los Angeles-based rapper and founder of OneSync, a DIY distributor that launched this year. JYPE says Gaines and OneSync are responsible for posting the stolen HAN track: \u201cDefendants knew that they (or \u2018yungzzz\u2019) did not author, create, perform on, or own the sound recording, and knew that they had unlawfully reproduced it from JYPE\u2019s prerelease,\u201d reads Wednesday\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\n\tJYPE is now seeking financial damages from both Gaines and OneSync for copyright infringement and violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which makes it illegal to remove authorship watermarks from music. Hitmaker is not accused of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement to Billboard, Gaines said the \u201cback to life\u201d recording was submitted to OneSync by a third party. \u201cI was unaware of the upload, and the recording has since been removed,\u201d says Gaines. \u201cWe are reviewing the underlying account and submission records to better understand how this occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGaines adds, \u201cOneSync takes copyright protection and the rights of artists and copyright holders seriously. Our distribution operations incorporate multiple copyright review and screening measures designed to identify potentially unauthorized content.\u201d He says OneSync will \u201ccooperate through the appropriate legal process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JYP Entertainment, the Korean music conglomerate behind K-pop sensation Stray Kids, is suing an upstart DIY distributor for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,157184,61,60,6521,3535,2900,278,633],"class_list":["post-677696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-k-pop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-k-pop","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}