Akihito Tokunaga Plagarized (Stole?)

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Akihito Tokunaga Plagarized (Stole?)

Post by Super 17 » Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:23 am

I caught him!

The Bon Para Para brothers dance (slow and then fast)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmhBpaNvDs

From DBGT episode 10

https://www.universalproductionmusic.co ... -culture-1

CD from 1993 - It's track 15 but...

You have to click on Track 14 - Honey Funkadelica

Click on that... and it gives you more versions... it's the second track of that version which is track 15 overall of the CD

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Re: Akihito Tokunaga Plagarized (Stole?)

Post by Dbzfan94 » Thu Oct 03, 2019 10:48 am

The Para brothers scene is literally just a basic beat. How is that plagiarism?

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Re: Akihito Tokunaga Plagarized (Stole?)

Post by mute_proxy » Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:20 pm

Dbzfan94 wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2019 10:48 am The Para brothers scene is literally just a basic beat. How is that plagiarism?
It's the same song, just slightly edited.

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Re: Akihito Tokunaga Plagarized (Stole?)

Post by Dbzfan94 » Fri Oct 04, 2019 11:24 am

mute_proxy wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:20 pm
Dbzfan94 wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2019 10:48 am The Para brothers scene is literally just a basic beat. How is that plagiarism?
It's the same song, just slightly edited.
You can't plagiarize a beat.

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Re: Akihito Tokunaga Plagarized (Stole?)

Post by mute_proxy » Fri Oct 04, 2019 12:22 pm

Dbzfan94 wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 11:24 am
You can't plagiarize a beat.
It's not a beat, it's a jazz/funk track, there's trumpet (or a sax) sounds in there. You can plagiarize music. That's a track by Steve Everitt.

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Re: Akihito Tokunaga Plagarized (Stole?)

Post by WittyUsername » Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:24 pm

That does remind me of something that Gaffer Tape/Mistare Fusion called attention to.

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Re: Akihito Tokunaga Plagarized (Stole?)

Post by Conquester » Sun Oct 06, 2019 11:06 am

In what way is that plagiarism? It's literally production music. TV shows do that, even animation. The Dragon Ball franchise has done this a few times before anyway. There is little to no probability the music hasn't been officially licensed for use on the show.
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Post by Valerius Dover » Sun Oct 06, 2019 3:52 pm

Weren't Master Roshi's exercise themes also prouction music in a similar manner? Cool that the origin of this song was found, though.
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Re: Akihito Tokunaga Plagarized (Stole?)

Post by Tian » Mon Oct 07, 2019 1:01 pm

Conquester wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2019 11:06 am In what way is that plagiarism? It's literally production music. TV shows do that, even animation. The Dragon Ball franchise has done this a few times before anyway. There is little to no probability the music hasn't been officially licensed for use on the show.
You're right. They even used the intro music from a Polish Hanna Barbera release for Paikuhan's Thunder Flash sound effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEn5KuVNK2c (Hanna Barbera) (starts at 0:14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlTixtUOQ_k (Dragon Ball Z) (starts at 0:21)

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Re: Akihito Tokunaga Plagarized (Stole?)

Post by Rafa Fast » Wed Sep 16, 2020 7:46 pm

I don't think that is plagiarism, this happened sometimes with Z and OG DB too before, like with Kame Sennin's exercise songs as Valerius Dover said, I believe it is a production music, as some guys above said.
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