The Hong Kong Standard has a story today on claims that a promotional song for the Shanghai World Expo has been taken off air due to a copyright claim. The song - Right Here Waiting For You in 2010 - was recorded by Hong Kong artists including Jackie Chan and Andy Lau along with various mainland stars, but has been put on hold by Expo organisers amid claims it was copied from a 1996 Japanese song.

Here are three videos to help you make up your own mind:

Original 1996 Japanese song (The Unchanged You Is The Best, by female Japanese pop singer Mayo Okamoto).

Shanghai Expo 2010 promotional song (Right Here Waiting For You in 2010, composed by Miao Sen, a graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and which won a competition in 2004).

And here is a side-by-side comparison so you can listen to them together.

As the story in the Standard says: "Renowned composer Yan Yu Tian, after listening to both songs, was quoted as saying they are 97 percent alike".

If you can read Chinese, here is a BBS forum on the issue on China's most popular BBS.