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The complaint, made by another channel on the video streaming platform, is not the first time that the V-pop prince has been accused of plagiarism.

The notification that popped up when netizens click on the “Chung Ta Cua Hien Tai” (We Of The Present) link on YouTube says: “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by GC.”

The video, removed on Monday evening (Feb 22) on YouTube, was restored on the platform after one day.

Three weeks ago, under the GC channel’s “Is You Mine” video published in September 2020, a viewer commented on the similarity in the rhythm of the song and Tung’s “Chung Ta Cua Hien Tai.”

“It’s very similar indeed, do you think they plagiarised it?” GC, a London-based music producer, responded. Many of his viewers have agreed.

A still from “Chung Ta Cua Hien Tai.” Photo courtesy of Son Tung M-TP’s YouTube channel.

GC said he would have not made a copyright violation claim without reason.

To a fan complaining that Tung had spent months making the video and did not deserve to have it taken off, GC responded: “It is retracted already, the producer admits he copied my work. Making money off someone else’s work? We don’t do that here in the West. You never seek to know the full story, do you? The video will be put back on, relax.”

So far, Tung has not commented on the accusation of plagiarism.

“Chung Ta Cua Hien Tai” released in December 2020, is a 15-minute pop MV filmed in the central town of Hue. It helped Tung become the first Vietnamese singer to gain eight million subscribers on YouTube.

This is not the first time Tung has faced the charge of plagiarism. In 2016, his MV “Chung Ta Khong Thuoc Ve Nhau” (We Don’t Belong To Each Other) was said to have copied from an MV of South Korean singer G-Dragon, and the music also faced criticism for sounding a lot like Charlie Puth’s “We Don’t Talk Anymore.”

In 2018, his MV “Chay Ngay Di” (Run Now) was criticized for copying from South Korean rapper Mino’s 2016 MV “Body.”

The GC channel is owned by Gary, who started his music career 12 years ago and has collaborated with many artists in Vietnam, South Korea, and China.

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LONDON — In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million.

The video by digital artist Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkelmann, was authenticated by blockchain, which serves as a digital signature to certify who owns it and that it is the original work.

It’s a new type of digital asset – known as a non-fungible token (NFT) – that has exploded in popularity during the pandemic as enthusiasts and investors scramble to spend enormous sums of money on items that only exist online.

Blockchain technology allows the items to be publicly authenticated as one-of-a-kind, unlike traditional online objects which can be endlessly reproduced.

“You can go in the Louvre and take a picture of the Mona Lisa and you can have it there, but it doesn’t have any value because it doesn’t have the provenance or the history of the work,” said Rodriguez-Fraile, who said he first bought Beeple’s piece because of his knowledge of the U.S.-based artist’s work.

“The reality here is that this is very, very valuable because of who is behind it.”

Examples of NFTs range from digital artworks and sports cards to pieces of land in virtual environments or exclusive use of a cryptocurrency wallet name, akin to the scramble for domain names in the early days of the internet.“Non-fungible” refers to items that cannot be exchanged on a like-for-like basis, as each one is unique – in contrast to “fungible” assets like dollars, stocks or bars of gold.

The computer-generated video sold by Rodriguez-Fraile shows what appears to be a giant Donald Trump collapsed on the ground, his body covered in slogans, in an otherwise idyllic setting.

OpenSea, a marketplace for NFTs, said it has seen monthly sales volume grow to $86.3 million so far in February, as of Friday, from $8 million in January, citing blockchain data. Monthly sales were at $1.5 million a year ago.

“If you spend 10 hours a day on the computer, or eight hours a day in the digital realm, then art in the digital realm makes tonnes of sense – because it is the world,” said OpenSea’s co-founder Alex Atallah.

Investors caution, however, that while big money is flowing into NFTs, the market could represent a price bubble.

Like many new niche investment areas, there is the risk of major losses if the hype dies down, while there could be prime opportunities for fraudsters in a market where many participants operate under pseudonyms.

Nonetheless, auction house Christie’s has just launched its first-ever sale of digital art – a collage of 5,000 pictures, also by Beeple – which exists solely as an NFT.

Christie’s ’embraces terrifying’

Bids for the work have hit $3 million, with the sale due to close on March 11.

“We are in a very unknown territory. In the first 10 minutes of bidding we had more than a hundred bids from 21 bidders and we were at a million dollars,” said Noah Davis, specialist in post-war and contemporary art at Christie’s.

His division has never seen an online-only sale top $1 million before, he added.

In a decision that could help push cryptocurrencies further into the mainstream, the auction house that was founded in 1766 will accept payment in the digital coin Ether as well as traditional money.

“I think that this moment was inevitable and whenever institutions of any kind try to resist inevitability, it does not work out very well,” Davis said of accepting crypto payment. “And so the best thing you can do is embrace the terrifying.”

$280k for Lebron James slam dunk

NFTs could be benefiting from the hype around cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as virtual reality’s potential to create online worlds. The growing interest also coincides with a surge in online retail trading during lockdowns.

The start of the rush for NFTs has been linked with the launch of the U.S. National Basketball Association’s Top Shot website, which allows users to buy and trade NFTs in the form of video highlights of games.

Five months after its launch, the platform says it has over 100,000 buyers and nearly $250 million in sales. The majority of sales take place in the site’s peer-to-peer marketplace, with the NBA getting a royalty on every sale.

The volume is rapidly rising: February has seen sales totalling $198 million as of Friday, heading for a fivefold increase from January’s $44 million, Top Shot said.

Each collectible has “a unique serial number with guaranteed scarcity and protected ownership guaranteed by blockchain”, the site says. “When you own #23/49 of a legendary LeBron James dunk, you’re the only person in the world who does.”

The biggest transaction to date was on Feb. 22, when a user paid $208,000 for a video of a LeBron James slam dunk.

One major NFT enthusiast, who goes by the pseudonym “Pranksy” told Reuters he had invested $600 in an early NFT project in 2017 and has now built that up to a portfolio “worth seven figures” in NFTs and cryptocurrencies. He asked to be anonymous to protect his family’s privacy.

Pranksy said he has now spent more than $1 million on Top Shot and made about $4.7 million by reselling purchases. Reuters was unable to independently verify the figures, although NBA Top Shot confirmed he is among the site’s biggest buyers.

“I see them as investments really, much like any other collectibles and NFTs that currently exist,” he said in an interview conducted via Twitter. “I’d never watched a game of basketball before Top Shot launched.”

‘Emergence of the metaverse’

Nate Hart, a Nashville-based NFT investor who, like Pranksy, has been involved in the market since it first developed in 2017, has seen some popular digital art NFTs such as Autoglyphs and CryptoPunk surge in value.

Hart said he bought a LeBron James Cosmic NFT on NBA Top Shot for $40,000 in January, then sold it for $125,000 in February.

“We’re in awe, it just doesn’t feel real. We were in the right place, right time, got lucky, but we also took that risk,” he said.

“The space has been growing a lot. I do think that this is a little bit of a bubble. It is a bubble,” he said. “It’s hard to predict what the top will be.”

Andrew Steinwold, who launched a $6 million dollar NFT investment fund in January, warned that the majority of NFTs could become worthless in future.

But, like many backers, he is confident that some items will retain their value and that NFTs represent the future of digital ownership, paving the way for a world in which people live, socialise and make money in virtual environments.

“We’re spending a lot of our time digitally, always online, always plugged in. It makes sense to now add property rights to the mix and suddenly we have the emergence of the metaverse,” he said.

“I think it’s going to reach into the trillions of dollars one day.”

The two, nurses in the outpatient and intensive care units at the newly set up field hospital in the northern province, Vietnam’s coronavirus epicenter now, have spent the last couple of weeks tending patients.

But they do not see each other every day and have not spoken in person for more than two weeks.

If the pandemic had not broken out, the young couple would have been celebrating the Lunar New Year with their three-year-old daughter and enjoying Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14.

Linh, 27, told VnExpress , “Before I had our daughter, Valentine’s Day was always romantic for the two of us. After [she was born] it has become a day for the whole family.”

Linh and Tuan (pictured) work in two different wards at the field hospital. Photo courtesy of Thuy Linh.

On January 28 Hai Duong was hit by a new Covid-19 wave that broke Vietnam’s 55-day clean streak, forcing the couple to start their works at the Chi Linh District medical center, which later became a field hospital.

Tuan had previous experience but Linh was a newcomer and took several days to get used to working round the clock.

She does not dare to drink much water since that might mean having to take off her protective suit to go to the restroom.

Once she took a critically ill Covid-19 patient to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi and returned to Hai Duong at 4 a.m.

“That was the first time I ever took a shower at 4 a.m. I was wary thinking about people who had a stroke while showering in the wee hours, but I was also afraid of getting infected by the novel coronavirus.”

Unable to see each other every day, Tuan and Linh call each other to talk.

On Lunar New Year’s Eve (February 11) Linh told him how her unit celebrated the holiday. Tuan told her his colleagues organized a performance at the hospital to welcome the new year.

Their daughter was sleeping with Tuan’s mother then.

The couple is not the only one to be separated at Tet or on Valentine’s Day by Covid-19.

Police officer Nguyen Van Hai looks at his wife from a distance. Photo courtesy of Hai.

Police officer Nguyen Van Hai was standing silently behind a barrier to see his wife, Nguyen Thi Ngoc, who was in quarantine in Chi Linh Town, a Covid-19 hotspot in Hai Duong.

Since Covid resurfaced in Hai Duong, Hai, busy with his duty, has not been home. He is extremely worried that his wife and many of their neighbors had attended a wedding related to a Covid-19 patient.

Two days after Ngoc went into quarantine, Hai finally found time to bring her some stuff. Standing at a distance from each other, they could not talk and had to silently look at each other.

“He is worried I will be unhappy in the quarantine facility, always tells me to wear masks and eat well,” Ngoc said.

Hai had also reassured her he would take care of the family during Lunar New Year.

A few hours before Lunar New Year’s Eve, Hai brought some food to the facility for his wife and some neighbors. Some time later, in the early morning, he finished his work and again visited the facility to give Ngoc li xi (lucky money).

“Just like for many other families amid the pandemic, this Tet is special for our family. But the situation makes us cherish our love and the time we spend together,” Ngoc said.

After 29 years of marriage and two daughters, the couple still never fails to celebrate Valentine’s Day with flowers and gifts.

Many other couples in Hai Duong have also been separated amid the Covid-19 battle.

Major Nguyen Van Hoa, police chief of Hoang Tan Ward, Chi Linh Town, told his wife Huyen Trang, who takes care of Covid-19 patients at the field hospital: “We are in the same Covid-19 battle.”

Since Covid-19 broke out, both have been busy. Hoa patrols and supervises several checkpoints since his ward has coronavirus cases and many residents are in quarantine.

He does not even have time to go home and get clothes for his wife to the hospital, which is five kilometers from home. But he calls her without fail every day.

Trang and Hoa talk on a video call. Photo courtesy of Nguyen Van Hoa.

Trang was initially apprehensive since her children cried when told to stay with her husband’s parents and the work at the hospital was overwhelming.

“I encouraged her, told her that she is a soldier in a white blouse and I am a soldier in a green uniform, and that we both have one goal: defeating the pandemic,” Hoa recalled.

He hoped to accomplish the mission so that his family could reunite afterward.

Hai and Ngoc were lucky that Ngoc finished her quarantine on February 13, a day before Valentine’s Day. Hai picked her up in the afternoon, and their daughters had cooked dinner to celebrate their family reunion.

It was the 30th Valentine’s Day that Hai and Ngoc spent together.