Tag Archives: Copying

Asake Shares Embarrassing Experience After Copying Fela Kuti’s Style Of Stage Performance

Asake and Fela

Nigerian singer, Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake, has recounted the embarrassing moment in the early years of his music career while copying the style of Nigerian Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti. Naija News reports that the ‘Sungba’ crooner, during an interview on the ‘Ginger Yourself’ podcast, said it was not …

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2023: Momodu Accuses Tinubu Of Copying MKO Abiola’s Manifesto

2023: Momodu Accuses Tinubu Of Copying MKO Abiola’s Manifesto

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, has accused the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, of plagiarising the manifesto of former President, late MKO Abiola. Momodu made the accusation in an article released on Sunday while reacting to Tinubu’s 80-page manifesto tagged …

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Ed Sheeran to face trial over accusation of copying Marvin Gaye hit single

Ed Sheeran

British megastar Ed Sheeran will be appearing before a court of law to defend himself against the accusation that he copied Marvin Gaye on his global smash hit ‘Thinking Out Loud’. Details: Chart-dominating artist and global high selling Pop star Ed Sheeran have been told by a Federal Judge that he must face trial …

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Ed Sheeran to face trial over accusation of copying Marvin Gaye on hit single ‘Thinking Out Loud’

Ed Sheeran to face trial over accusation of copying Marvin Gaye on hit single 'Thinking Out Loud'

Ed Sheeran had applied to the court asking that the copyright claims be struck out for being “baseless” and “way too common”. In a judgment delivered on Thursday, 29th September 2022, US District Judge Louis Stanton declared that a jury will have to determine the level of similarity between both …

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