Tag Archives: COPYRIGHT

A new twist has emerged in the $10 million copyright suit filed by Ghanaian rap legend, Obrafour against Canadian rapper, Drake. Obrafour filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York in which he is demanding the said amount from Drake over copyright infringement in his 2022 song ‘Calling My Name’ off …

GOLDENVOICE, THE CONCERT giant behind Coachella, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the organizers of Afrochella, a Ghanaian music festival specializing in Afrobeats music. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday at a California district court and obtained by Rolling Stone, comes three years after AEG (which owns Goldenvoice) issued a warning …

“Flowers,” a track off the artist formerly known as Kanye West’s Stem Player exclusive Donda 2, is now at the center of a copyright infringement claim. As Reuters reported on Wednesday, Ultra International Music Publishing LLC (UIMP) alleges the track in question “directly samples” the 1986 song “Move Your Body,” …

Ghanaian-based Nigerian artiste Oduma Essan has sued Lynx Entertainment signee Kuami Eugene over his song ‘Show Body’ released on October 9, 2020. According to Oduma, after the release of the audio and video of his ‘Show Body’ song on July 17 and September 5, 2020, respectively in Nigeria, Kuami Eugene dropped what …

Ghana needs an active copyright sector to generate investment opportunities that will result in a higher employment rate and increased levels of income to significantly alleviate poverty, Dr Magnus Ebo Duncan, an Economic Statistician has said. He said there was the need for a policy to retain existing copyright sector …