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SM Entertainment's New Girl Group, Red Velvet Gets into Early Controversy!

Red velvet gets into a controversy though they are still a rookie group New SM girl group, Red Velvet has came into controversy ahead of release of their debut single.

Jul 30, 2014 02:22 PM BST
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New SM girl group, Red Velvet has came into controversy ahead of release of their debut single. It seems that Red Velvet is also the name of an indie band based around Hongik University who has started performing in 2013.

Ha Hee Soo, who is a member of the indie band Red Velvet, has posted a message online, “We released a single last year, performed at Hongik University, and we’re currently preparing for our next album. It took us off guard, hearing that there would be a girl group debuting with the same name.” Ha Hee Soo said, “It’s not like SM wouldn’t have searched the name before they decided to use it,” which states the band’s disappointment. The band’s digital single “The Day After You Left” which has been listed on the various music sites.

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The band member stated, “We’re a powerless indie band. If SM’s girl group debuts, our activities and promotions are going to get difficult. We’ve just now gotten our footing, and we have a lot of affection for our name, too. Please help us keep the name Red Velvet.”

Dispatch confirmed that the band has not gotten their name trademarked, and thus is unable to claim rights to the name. Patent attorney Hwang Sung Pil stated, “Even if they are able to apply, if they didn’t do it first, they have no legal claim to the name.”

An ethical view is the inly thing left. A music industry official stated, “SM is a major music agency. They won’t fight with an indie band. This kind of thing happens a lot in the music industry, and [in the past] even if there wasn’t any legal claim, they took an ethical stance and the issues were resolved smoothly.”

It was in 2009 when 2NE1 ran into the same issue. At the time, the group was supposed to debut as “21.” But because there was a solo artist who debuted in 2005, also called 21 (To Anyone), YG Then apologized to the artist, and changed the group name. Yang Hyun Suk stated, “We kept the name, but changed the way it was written to ‘2NE1.’ We’ll do our best to keep our activities and promotions from overlapping,” which had resolved the issue.

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