After the hoax and the silly joke from the ex-prime minister of Belgium, here is another story from Belgium. This time, it is a serious one.

To be honest, i have never heard about it before until break news talked about it yesterday.

Back to 1995, august to be more accurate, i first spent time in the US of A.
That was also the year where the great last album of the “King of the Pop” aka Michael Jackson was out : History (Jackson was a visionary :p )
One of the summer hit was Jackon’s “You are not alone” ; remember the clip where his wife was half naked ? :p

Here you go for you … ears’ pleasure :p

The music is “from” R. Kelly ; in fact not really. At least that is what a court in Belgium thinks so.

Yesterday, after a 12 years trial, according to a court in Belgium, the music belongs to 2 sibblings from Belgium.
It seems like 75% of the music by R.Kelly was written by Van Passel bros, Danny and Eddy.

At first i didn’t wanted to believe it, i did some research and … bad bad R. Kelly ! Hard to believe but the evidence is against him.
If there is a thing i have learnt during my short stop at Uncc, is that american do not kid about plagiarism !

Now listen to the Van Passel version from 1993. It sounds more like a “maquette” (workin’ progress ?) though.

Amazing ugh ?

What’s next ?

For now, the court in Belgium decreed on the fact the music now belongs to Van Passel bros therefore all copyright royalties are now theirs ; even anterior ones.
So goodluck to both of them to get their money back ! It won’t be easy.

Incoming more “worldwide trials” since the judgement is only availabe in Belgium.
I assume it is gonna took another 12 more years to both Bros ^_^

(lesoir.be)

Ps : Stupid media ! (here and here and here and … )
Some medias mixed up between R.Kelly being a plagiarist and Jackson being a plagiarist.
They also mixed up about the fact that the music and only the music has been plagiarized and the song (including lyrics) itself ! Quite different !