A Federal High Court in
Lagos has fixed November 5 for hearing in a suit filed by a Nigerian musician,
Olumuyiwa Danladi a.k.a Danny Young, against a fellow musician, Tiwatope
Savage, over alleged copyright infringement.
In the suit, labelled
FHC/L/CS/230/2019 and pending before Justice Mohammed Liman, Young is claiming
N205 million in damages against Savage for allegedly, using his musical work
titled ‘ONE’ without lawful authority.
Also joined in the suit is
Mavin Records, a Nigerian record label, founded by record artist, Don Jazzy, on
May 8, 2012.
The ‘Omo Lepa’ hit singer
filed the suit through his counsel, Mr Justin Ige, of Creative Legal, claiming
the sum of N200 million in damages against the defendants for copyright
violation.
He is also claiming N5
million as cost of action, as well as demanding an account for profits accrued
to the defendants from the use of the infringing musical work titled ‘ONE’
The Plaintiff filed the
suit since February 13.
No comments:
Post a Comment