The company behind the Okay-pop group IVE, Starship Leisure has filed a lawsuit in opposition to YouTubers who’ve created malicious content material focusing on IVE and their different artists. They got here out with a press release on June 25 to announce the information.
They claimed that they initially filed for authorized motion in opposition to folks making hateful content material again in October 2022.
“In October 2022, we filed a authorized grievance in opposition to persistent malicious commenters, and so they obtained sentences of six months in jail, employment restriction, and itemizing on the intercourse offender registry. Since November 2022, by way of LIWU Regulation Group (authorized consultant Chong Kyung Suk), we’ve been finishing up a legal and civil swimsuit and in addition a lawsuit abroad.”
They continued: “In Might 2023, we had been granted an info provision order from the USA District Court docket for the Northern District of California, and in July 2023, we managed to acquire significant details about the ‘Sojang’ channel supervisor from the Google headquarters in the USA. Sadly nevertheless, across the time Google notified the ‘Sojang’ channel supervisor concerning the info provision order, ‘Sojang’ abruptly claimed that their channel was hacked and deleted the prevailing movies on their channel, and the channel account was deleted adopted by an apology.”
They additional added that they at all times stay vigilant with regards to hateful feedback in the direction of their artists. “We’re continuously working a monitoring system to guard the rights of our artists together with their popularity, privateness, and their human rights, and we plan to take all doable authorized actions with out leniency for the present and future circumstances of defamation or different further damages brought on to the artists.
We ask for followers to repeatedly ship experiences as they’ve been of nice help in our response to the authorized proceedings and authorized actions.”