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Sunny Ade accuses Davido, Small Doctor of copyright breach

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Sunny Ade accuses Davido, Small Doctor of copyright

Veteran Nigerian musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, popularly known as King Sunny Adé has through his manager identified as Clement Ige accused both Davido and Small Doctor of copyright infringement.

King Sunny Ade’s minder who posited that present day Nigerian musicians are full of themselves, especially the younger ones, made the accusation while speaking at a Roundtable discourse in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Ige said; “They use English language to speak Yoruba. Like the young man who sang ‘makole marale.’ How do you build house before buying a land?” he asked. Many of them don’t give credit to the original composer of the song they adopt. They just sing it without seeking permission. That’s a copyright infringement. It’s not done in developed societies.

Read also: Majek Fashek slams Timi Dakolo with N10m lawsuit for copyright infringement

Till today, Small Doctor didn’t get our permission before and after singing ‘ijó tí m’ojó l’àná, tí wọn n’pariwo, oni nkọ, ola nkọ.’ And many of them are guilty of this. The Davido that used Sunny’s lyrics in his song didn’t even get it right and that’s because he didn’t ask for permission.If he did, we would have corrected him. What is ‘Kuluso ewe, agbagba ewe…?’ The line is actually ‘Seleru agbo, agbara agbo’. I know because I co-wrote the song!”

This is not the first time a younger artiste is being accused by an older musician of copyright theft; in July 2016, Majek Fashek threatened to sue Timi Dakolo for remaking his song titled ‘Send Down The Rain’ in 2013 without his permission.

In the month of November 2017; Jaywon and Simi were both accused by veteran musician and one-time Commissioner for Arts and Culture in Edo state, Sir Victor Uwaifo of remixing his song titled ‘Joromi’, without his permission.

Sir Victor Uwaifo made that much known in an interview with Vanguard where he revealed that he would rather not drag both of them to court for not seeking permission from him before remixing the song as the original composer but wished they did the right thing.

 

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