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Karen-T is the independent music label owned by Crypton Future Media which grants the sale of many Vocaloid related songs. It also covers non-Vocaloid songs.

About

Most Vocaloid music is sold under the Karen-T music label and are distributed from websites like iTunes. Prior to the sites launch had been much harder for any producer to sell their music and musicians such as Supercell had to sell their works via current existing labels such as Sony. Karen-T supports both English and Japanese,[1] allowing users overseas to also buy works via the site. There are hundreds of Vocaloid related works on the website and it is the main hub for most Indy musicians using Vocaloids. All music sold under the label's name is held under the producer's copyright. This also grants premission for the song albums to be sold at events such as The Voc@loid M@ster.

Currently, Karen-T does not accept works from new artists and only established artists can sell their works via Karen-T, although this may change in the future.[2]

Permission

Despite being set up for the sale of Vocaloid songs, permission from the studio has to be granted by each respective Studio in order for the actual sale to occur. For example, until late May 2011, no AH-Software Vocaloids could be used for works sold via Karen-T, with the exception of Iroha (who is joint owned by Sanrio) this ban is now lifted. Zero-G and PowerFX also gave allowance for their Vocaloids to be sold via Karen-T.[3][4] Bplats and Internet Co., Ltd also allow the sale of works via the website, however, Internet Co., Ltd did not originally give permission.

The licensed songs from the album Graduation from Lie featuring Teto Kasane were released for music downloads from Karen-T, under Crypton Future Media, as a special release. This is the first licensed release of any UTAU.[5] Currently Ah-software's voiceroid software packages do not have premission to be used with the label.

Japan Earthquake + Tsunami Support

During the events of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a number of Vocaloid related donation drives were produced. Crypton Future Media joined several other companies in a donation drive, with money spent on the sales of music from Crypton Future Media's KarenT label being donated to the Japanese Red Cross.[6]

Other information

  • In 2010, the popular song "Magnet" was removed from sale because of the artwork. Artist Yunomi had been accused of plagarism when it was discovered that she had traced photographs from stock images and used these works for CD albums on Karen-T. Other works who had covers that were also made by the artist saw their work removed also. [7] Amongst the affected songs were popular songs like "Just be Friends" and "Spice".[8]

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References

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  5. Kasane Teto "Graduation from Lie" (Japanese). Crypton Future Media. Retrieved on October 2, 2010.
  6. 東北地方太平洋沖地震による被災地に対する支援について (Japanese). Crypton Future Media (March 16, 2011). Retrieved on March 24, 2011.
  7. Artist Yunomi accused of Plagiarism. Vocaloid Creativity Community (August 6, 2010). Retrieved on December 1, 2010.
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