The Pop Stage Anomaly: Did CJ Villavicencio Plagiarize the Ang Huling El.Bimbo Musical?

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So someone from "The Pop Stage" online talent contest did an eraserheads medley, but his arrangements are straight out of a musical?

There were no credits nor permission to use these arrangements. due to its commercial use, it's under the jurisdiction of copyright laws.

Did CJ Villavicencio unashamedly rip off Ang aHuling El Bimbo (AHEB)’s musical arrangements! How could he even sleep at night knowing that he stole someone else’s hard work without asking for a single permission or even providing any actual credits to the artists?

If this was true, shame on @CjVillavicencio, @VivaArtists and the contest producers who tolerate this. You can’t call someone an ARTIST when he rips-off others’ work and make money out of it. So wrong.

Abutin mo ang pangarap mo—but not this way.

CJ Villavicencio was accused of plagiarizing musical arrangements and concepts from Ang Huling El Bimbo, the jukebox musical based on the music of OPM rock icons The Eraserheads.

The overused "bad publicity is still publicity" enters the picture. Yes, CJ and his team will have this image that plagiarized the arrangement of AHEB musical but maybe months or years, it will be forgotten. He still got his 1M pesos and a contract with Viva Agency.

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