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A Judge Martha Pacold has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man named DaQuan Robinson, who accused Future of copyright infringement.    Robinson had sued Future 2 years ago for what he claimed was a lot of lifted elements which mirrored his own track, “When U Think About It.”   …

Street-pop sensation Shallipopi is facing a copyright infringement claim over his single ‘Obapluto’ on which 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 …

Popular Nigerian musician and activist, Charles Emeka Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has threatened to drag Premier Records Limited to court over issues bothering on copyright infringements. The musician claims that Premier Records Limited has violated the terms of the agreement over a musical contract between both parties. The …

  Music publishers sued Twitter for more than $250 million in damages on Wednesday, June 14 alleging that the social media platform “breeds massive copyright infringement that harms music creators.”   In the lawsuit, the National Music Publishers’ Association, whose members include Universal, Sony and Warner Music Group allege that …

British Singer, Ed Sheeran has won the copyright case for his single, ‘Thinking Out Loud’, for which he won a Grammy  award. Naija News reports that the singer was sued by the heirs of Ed Townsend, co-writer of ‘Let’s Get It on’, a 1973 songs by the late, Marvin Gaye. …

‘Domitilla’ is the title of a movie produced in 1996 by Zeb Ejiro, which starred Njemanze as the lead character. Annie Njemanze’s registration and application of ‘Domitilla’ as a trademark have been cancelled by the Trademark Tribunal in Abuja.

Ed Sheeran sang and played guitar to a New York jury at a civil trial that will decide whether he copied Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get it On.   For roughly an hour on Thursday, April 27, Sheeran described his entire musical career and performed parts of the song in question, …

The Registry, a Commercial Law Department of the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, equally adjourned for ruling, if the parties in the dispute failed to reach an agreement of settlement. Shefiu Adamu, the Registrar of the department, made the pronouncement at the resumed hearing of a petition filed …

Ghanaian musician Obrafour is dragging Canadian rapper Drake to court over the unauthorised use of his song. In music, sampling is a common concept as artists borrow from the works of others to uplift their art. To legitimately borrow, one must take permission and the absence of such permission amounts …

According to Mr. Eazi, Bad Bunny recorded a Joeboy song without going through the standard clearance process with the label and the artist. “Yo @sanbenito you need to tell your lawyers to stop messing around and clear that Joeboy rip-off on your album,” the tweet reads. Mr. Eazi then proceeded …