In the last few hours, it had emerged that the content creator Edwar Riaño, better known in the digital world as “El Topi” had received a lawsuit for having released the vallenato version of the song from the renowned children’s series Lazy Town.
The influencer received a document in which the Turner company, owner of the rights to Lazy Town, would have gone to legal proceedings for alleged plagiarism and modification of the musical work. According to the document, the company accused the content creator of singing and uploading the song to the YouTube platform without his authorizationclaiming compensation.
“It has similar elements in its rhythm, melodic notes, chords and measures, as well as in the chorus that allows for special repetitiveness, recognition and familiarity. Furthermore, the grammatical constructions and phonetics of the same context of the musical work titled ‘Bing Bang’ radically violate the copyright, moral rights, related rights, phonographic rights and other fundamental rights of the plaintiffs,” the document said.
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However, in the last few hours “El Topi” informed its followers on social networks that, after consulting with its legal team, They concluded that it was a false claim.
Through some stories on Instagram, Edwar Riaño gave details of what would have happened and assured that on November 19, while he was preparing to watch the Colombia match at the Metropolitan stadium in Barranquilla along with other content creators, He received the alleged demand on his cell phone. At that time, “El Topi” read the document and told some of his friends, who advised him to seek legal advice.
Subsequently, The influencer sent the document to his lawyers for analysis. According to him, they told him that he had no reason to worry, because as a consequence he would only have to delete the video and return the financial profits that he had received up to that point for the song, which, he assures, are not many.
However, before entering the game, while he was with other content creators, “El Topi” was interviewed by a media outlet on the subject, which is why the news quickly went viral on social networks. In said dialogue, The content creator assured that he had received the demand, but at that time he did not know that it was false.
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After the Colombia match, the influencer went home and until the next day the lawyers confirmed that it was a false complaint. Riaño even shared an image in which you can see some errors in the alleged lawsuit, including inconsistencies in names, misspelled names, and false signatures.
Finally, “El Topi” took the opportunity to deny the rumors that have spread on social networks, which say that everything would be a marketing campaign by the influencer.
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