[The Epoch Times, July 13, 2022](The Epoch Times reporter Tong Yijia reported) Recently, the mainland variety show “China Rap Showdown” was suspected of plagiarizing the peripheral products of the Korean group EXO’s star card, and even the logo was clearly visible. Chu. However, when the production unit apologized, it played a word game and said that it did not realize the “similarity” and “will take this as a warning”, and so on, which caused netizens to complain.
“China Rap Showdown” recently invited 24 rappers to compete, but some netizens found that the diamond element under the card face of the star card launched by the show completely copied the logo of EXO’s fifth album revision “LOVE SHOT”. If you zoom in on the picture of the card, you can see the three letters “EXO” on the diamond clearly.
In this regard, the production company issued a statement on Weibo on the 12th, stating that the peripheral products were produced by a third-party design company, saying, “The third-party design company did not realize the similarity with the original logo when selecting materials for reference, resulting in The final product appears to be similar,” and said: “We will take this as a warning and strengthen internal training to prevent such incidents from happening again.”
However, many netizens thought that the production unit should take it lightly, and commented: “It’s too speechless, this is a blatant plagiarism!” “What is the similarity? If you insist that it is similar, you can’t admit plagiarism?” Sneak!” “The logo is all on it, so what are you quibbling about!” “Why is iQIYI planning to form a boy group called EXO? Otherwise, what about the big EXO LOGO?”
Responsible editor: Ye Ziwei