Legal Battle Continues On AKA’s Alleged Copyright Lawsuit
80's group Future Slap AKA with lawsuit for copyright
Legal Battle Continues On AKA’s Alleged Copyright Lawsuit. Award winning Rapper AKA’s record label Universal Music South Africa is being sued for copyright by the 80’s band Future on the song One Time the rapper released back in 2016.
According to court papers seen by SundayWorld, the musician and producer Thembinkosi Lubisi asked the court to declare him the sole copyright-holder of the song, including AKA’s adaptation of it, stating that he had not assigned them any copyrights or permission to rework it.
According to a Daily Sun report, AKA acknowledged using some of Lubisi’s work from his song Party Weekend and offered to apologise to him for not crediting the 68-year-old producer. In the same report, AKA claimed that he wanted to credit the producer, but struggled to locate Lubisi.
Lubisi pleaded to the court to declare him the sole holder of the copyrights, saying that failure to do so will see him losing all rights to a company he never dealt with at any stage of his musical career.
Ryan Hill of Universal Music said they were under the impression that Lubisi had reached an agreement to give the artist 60% of the composer rights to the track.
“This was signed by Universal and AKA and was sent to Sony for their [perusal] and Lubisi’s signature. Universal has not been advised by anybody that the dispute was not resolved,” Hill said. Sony Music’s legal department said they did not receive any court papers and could not comment.
SOURCE : SOWETANLIVE
