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Friday 13 November 2015

Copyright Infringement: Court Orders Record Labels To Pay Sunny Ade N500m

The legal hostility between,Juju maestro King Suny Ade and record manufacturing company African Songs and its subsidiary Take your choice stores that started thirty years ago came to an end Thursday as a Federal high court sitting in Lagos ordered the two companies to pay king Suny Ade the sum of N500million as damages, for infringing on his works with additional cost N3million for prosecuting the suit.
According to a statement of claim amended three times filed before the court by a Lagos lawyer Chief Felix Fagbohungbe,SAN
In 1975, a contract dispute arose between king Suny Ade and the two companies culminating to a judgement delivered by Justice Dosumu presiding over a Lagos high court.

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