A New York music company has sued Oner Active, the women’s activewear brand founded by fitness creator Krissy Cela. It claims the brand used three songs without paying for them in promotional videos that its ambassadors and affiliates posted on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
Music L.A.A., which does business as LAA Music, and its principal Zac Hiller filed the copyright lawsuit on Oct. 15, 2026, in federal court in Michigan. It names Oner Active USA LLC, which the brand’s own privacy policy lists as the company behind its U.S. shop. The case, No. 26-cv-13928, has been assigned to U.S. District Judge F. Kay Behm.
The claims have not been proven, and no response from Oner Active appears on the docket.
The songs and the videos
The lawsuit covers three tracks that, it says, are in TikTok’s music library: “Take It Off (Lights Off)” by Chef Boy, “BOO” by H3adband and “Baby” by Mike Sherm. LAA Music and Hiller say they own the registered copyrights in the beat behind “Take It Off,” the drum composition in “BOO,” and the recording and music of “Baby.”
According to the complaint, at least 16 videos promoting Oner Active clothing use one of those songs, most of them “Take It Off.” The videos were posted between Jan. 16 and Oct. 6, 2026, and together had more than 1,058,000 views when the plaintiffs checked them on Oct. 12, 2026. The biggest, a TikTok, had about 815,800 views on its own.
Two of the videos ran as paid TikTok ads, the complaint says. Others carry Oner discount codes, and some were posted by creators who describe themselves in their profiles as an “@Oner Active move ambassador” or an “@Oner Active affiliate.” The suit says the platforms’ own audio labels identify the music in each video as one of the three songs.
Why the brand is being sued, not the creators
The creators are not defendants. Instead, the lawsuit argues that Oner Active is responsible because it runs the program the videos come from.
To show that, it quotes an Oner job posting for a “Senior Partnerships Manager – US.” The posting says the manager will negotiate creators’ contracts, including “usage rights,” “personally brief talent,” and work with the paid media team to “identify, test and scale high-performing creator assets.” The complaint also points to Oner’s website terms, which say that creator content the brand is allowed to use becomes “the property of Oner Active.”
On that basis, LAA Music accuses Oner of direct, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, and says the infringement was willful. Oner “knows that commercial use of music requires a license,” the complaint says, because its own partnerships team negotiates usage rights.
What the music company wants
LAA Music and Hiller ask for their actual damages and Oner’s profits from the videos, or statutory damages instead. For “Baby,” they say they can seek up to $150,000 for willful infringement, because the song was registered with the Copyright Office in December 2025, before the Oner video using it was posted in August 2026. For the other two songs, they ask for statutory damages only “to the extent” the law allows.
They also want a court order barring Oner and its ambassadors and affiliates from using the songs, the removal of the videos, and an accounting of all sales made through the discount codes and links in them.
About Oner Active
Cela founded Oner Active in 2020 after becoming a personal trainer, according to the company’s website. The complaint says the brand has called the U.S. its largest market and sells there mainly through creator content. It is also opening its first store, at 0 Bond Street in Manhattan, FashionUnited reported in May 2026.
Oner Active will now have to be formally served. After that, it can answer the complaint or ask the judge to dismiss it.
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Featured image: Bond Street in Manhattan, where Oner Active is opening its first store. Photo: Jess Hawsor / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
