The drama between Nigerian artiste Shallipopi and veteran singer Pa Monday Edo has taken a new turn, as Shallipopi is set to face a copyright infringement claim over his single ‘Obapluto’ where he sampled the record ‘Ovonramwen n’ Ogbaisi’ by veteran singer Pa Monday Edo Igbinidu.
In the letter of notice addressed to Shallipopi by Pa Monday’s lawyers, it was alleged that Shallipopi sampled the record without the license, authorization, permission, or legal excuse.
One of the paragraph of the letter of the notice reads: “Our brief reveal sir, that recently without the license, authorization, permission, or lawful excuse, you knowingly caused yourself to infringe on our client’s right over the said musical work by superimposing, displaying, recording, broadcasting, copying (pirating), distinguishing, performing, reproducing, appropriating and making derivation of the said musical work for economic, social and psychological gains, an act which constitutes both a civil breach of our client’s copyright to the said musical work and also a criminal infraction under the Nigerian Copyright Act.”
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