The label claims an artist named Trefuego “brazenly” used a segment from a 1986 instrumental song by Japanese composer Toshifumi Hinata without permission.
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In a lawsuit first filed in December and refiled this week, Sony claims that Trefuego made “flagrant” use of Hinata’s “Reflections” in his own song “90mh” — a track that’s allegedly been featured in 155,000 videos on TikTok and been streamed 100 million times on Spotify since it was released in 2019.
In terms of the specific music borrowed, Sony claims that Trefuego sampled a 15-note melodic strings sequence accompanied by a looping chord progression played on the piano. That clip is looped throughout the entirety of “90mh,” Sony says.
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