Court rules in favor of rock band GLAY over copyright ownership

Friday 23rd October, 06:56 AM JST

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NagoyaOya at 10:16 AM JST - 23rd October

It really is a shame that an organization like JT doesn't do more with stories like this. With my extremely limited resources, I found out quite a bit more about the back story to this case, yakuza connections and all...Or maybe, like the mainstream Japanese media, JT don't want to upset our colorfully tattooed neighbors! http://www.japan-zone.com/news/2009/10/23/glaywinthe_day.shtml
NagoyaOya at 10:16 AM JST - 23rd October

http://www.japan-zone.com/news/2009/10/23/glaywinthe_day.shtml
NagoyaOya at 10:18 AM JST - 23rd October

Hmm, why is it messing up the URL like that? It's glaywinthe_day.shtml. And if that one gets messed up to, you can always find the story in the Japan Zone entertainment news section.
Altria at 10:28 AM JST - 23rd October

It really is a shame that an organization like JT doesn't do more with stories like this. With my extremely limited resources, I found out quite a bit more about the back story to this case, yakuza connections and all...Or maybe, like the mainstream Japanese media, JT don't want to upset our colorfully tattooed neighbors!

Most of JT is the Japanese mainstream media, directly translated into English. I think that's their selling point, rather than offering any actual journalism on their part.
gogogo at 11:17 AM JST - 23rd October

Pretty lame milhouse
Yelnats at 12:36 PM JST - 23rd October

Lots of mula for a bad band. Ever hear them pronounce their own name? guruayu
Junnama at 12:41 PM JST - 23rd October

Is that true? I always thought it was pronouced "gray"...which made me laugh :(
TokyoXtreme at 06:58 PM JST - 23rd October

Now with all their money, maybe GLAY can buy Strunk and White's book and learn a few things about proper capitalization.
shinhiyata at 08:37 PM JST - 23rd October

The song "Rain" that they performed for the 1995 TOHO movie "Yamato Takeru" is actually quite good. But, this was just before they became successful and succumbed to proverbial JPop mediocrity. Still, their early releases have some fantastic vocals and decent arrangements and are worth a listen.
Pump24 at 01:45 AM JST - 24th October

GLAY are very talented musicians, and their music around the Pure Soul era was pretty good stuff. Winter Again is a favorite. But I agree, recent records have been predictable and uninteresting. Still, good to see they get what is due to them.
vajra at 09:38 AM JST - 24th October

Glay scores everybody in LA is happy for them !
presto345 at 01:09 PM JST - 24th October

Justice has been done, whether one likes the music or not is totally beside the point.
eigonosensei at 09:26 AM JST - 26th October

J-pop tends to sound all the same because of the limited range. I read somewhere that Japanese have a limited ability to distinguish much higher and much lower notes. That's why many J-tunes sound like someone speaking fast and loud and not really singing. I'm pretty sure Japanese have a very highly developed sense of taste and smell, though, because of how delicate and subtle their cuisine is. Also, Japanese are much more visual with all their charts, graphs and diagrams on TV news and their famous visual arts through the ages, of course.
azzassa at 10:42 AM JST - 26th October

The one song I like sung by GLAY has only ever appeared in 1 karaoke place I've been to.

Judging from eigonosensei comments, nihonjinron seems to be alive and well in Japan I see. I'm pretty sure that most Japanese people can recognize higher and lower notes, it's just the higher ups who control the rest of the population tell the rest to listen what they tell them to listen to, and everybody who has gone through the socialization system, I mean "education system", has been brought up to agree with what the people in charge say.
eigonosensei at 05:13 PM JST - 26th October

Sorry to burst your infantile, Disneyland "It's a small world", globalist fantasy bubble you live in azzassa where everyone only LOOKS different but people from different ethnic backgrounds are DIFFERENT in many ways. To me that's the beauty of our complex world. The reason why cultures are distinct is that the people are inherently different physically, mentally etc. Over tens of thousands of years humans have developed into different species based on their environment. I guess you want everyone to be equal in every way right? Dumb-down the geniuses, make everyone wear Gap and listen to Coldplay? That would be hell-on-Earth to me.

I read something in a book about Japanese and their ability to recognize different pitch, but OH! your opinion must be better than what I read, right?