Pervasive plagiarism is threatening the EDM industry.

If you have listened to EDM music over the last 2 years it is quite possible that you have at least once listened to music that has been stolen. Quite often labels get demos that turn out to be blatant rip off’s of lesser know artist’s their genius music pieces. This leaves them to send an email to the original artist who takes it up himself to do something about it or not… because filing claims has to be done by the official copyright owner and can be time consuming and tedious. Often no help is given by social media channels and the original artist draws the short straw.

Now, we are not talking about stuff that is “inspired by” another artist or uses the same riff. We are talking about “Stealing” with a capital S here:

Saving a file from an artist you like (and possibly to some degree identify yourself with), changing the title and adding your artist name, uploading it to youtube or whereever and then emailing labels as if it was your own piece of music.

This is a despicable practice. The lack of respect involved is tremendous.
It betrays a hard working artist somewhere and puts the fruit of his work in another person’s basket.

The case of MODIGS VS BABBINGTN… A DAVID VS GOLIATH story.

We received an email of a fan of EDM producer Modigs (who is signed to Philosophy Recordings), saying that there was a guy named (Jordan)“Babbingtn” and that he has stolen not only Modigs’ his original music… but also his logo.

To our astonishment this was true, leaving us to write an angry letter to Babbingtn, but the more we thought about this story the more we felt we should tell it to people because this stuff happens at least once a month Modigs his label told us after a brief skype call.

Thats right, Modigs’ label, finds stolen tracks at least once a month. This is not normal. This is not something that should be condoned.

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The evidence: Judge for yourself:

Logo: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=697766270273800&set=a.187083771342055.61451.172084869508612&type=1&theater
(Notice how the symbol is an M by the way… it doesnt even seem to fit “Babbingtn”)

Modigs – Bound by you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bd2Mu_6mDo

Babbingtn renamed it “Pentagram”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18iwGKYUa9c

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Babbingtn has and had been using the music and logo of Modigs for ages, building a solid fanbase of thousands of EDM lovers, 1000’s of people duped into liking an artist based on music that is stolen. Im sure those fans will feel filthy now reading this and I am sorry for them that they have been so misled.

Get this! Babbingtn wasn’t just satisfied with stealing the music of Modigs, he wanted to have his logo as well and so he took that also. Leaving Modigs to work tirelessly to claim copyrights and file forms, spending hours on end to claim what is rightfully his. What is more is, Babbingtn has built up more fans with stolen music than Modigs with his legit music!

It is clear that Modigs deserves the credit Babbingtn took and we hope to have your support to share Modigs his story.

Help us restore integrity in the EDM scene! Post this story on your facebook or twitter or share it with your friends. We need to get attention for this problem that clearly is pervasive in this industry!

Modigs deserves some time in the spotlight for the fantastic music he and he alone produced!

Support Modigs and buy his masterful self titled, original sounding LP here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-am-modigs/id680166391