JYP Entertainment has sued a US distributor, saying a stolen recording by Stray Kids member HAN was uploaded to streaming services under another artist's name.
The suit was filed on 4 November in federal court in California. It names OneSync Media and its founder, Miles Gaines.
The song is "back to life", a HAN solo track JYP released as a video on the Stray Kids YouTube channel on 9 May.
It was part of SKZ-PLAYER, a series of solo videos. As a video release, it never went to streaming services through JYP.
JYP says the recording then appeared on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube credited to "yungzzz", with no credit to HAN or the label.
The label traced it through YouTube metadata to distributors iGroove and Hitmaker Music Group. Hitmaker's lawyers identified Gaines as the account owner.
JYP is seeking damages for copyright infringement and for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by stripping ownership data from the track.
Gaines told Billboard a third party submitted the file and he did not know about the upload. He said it has been removed.
JYP has chased this song before. In September it sought a subpoena over a separate upload credited to an artist named "New Vibs".
Hitmaker is not accused of any wrongdoing. The claims in the filing have not been proven, and a judge will decide the case.
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