Ghanaian gospel music group Alabaster Field has filed a lawsuit against rapper Medikal, alleging copyright infringement over his newest monitor “Welcome to Africa.” The group is looking for GHS 15 million in damages.
Based on a writ of summons filed on the Excessive Courtroom of Justice, Alabaster Field accuses Medikal of illegally sampling their tune “Akwaaba” within the opening moments of his new launch. They declare the primary ten seconds of Medikal’s monitor are a by-product work based mostly on their authentic composition.
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Identified for his or her hit “Akwaaba,” Alabaster Field has loved over 30 years within the music business, with performances each regionally and internationally—together with a notable look earlier than the late Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.
The group asserts that they maintain the unique copyright to “Akwaaba” in Ghana and the UK, and have invested closely in selling the tune and their model globally.
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Considerations over vulgar content material and model tarnishing
The gospel group contends that Medikal’s monitor accommodates “expressive profanity, vulgarity and unprintable phrases,” which they argue have broken their picture and diminished the goodwill related to their work.
Alabaster Field is due to this fact requesting GHS 10 million in compensation for copyright infringement, along with GHS 5 million in exemplary damages. These extra damages are supposed to deal with what the group describes because the rapper’s “intentional infringement of the Plaintiff’s copyright, model affiliation with vulgarity, and for diminishing the great mileage of the copyright work.”
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Group calls for full income disclosure and tune withdrawal
The plaintiffs are additionally urging the courtroom to compel Medikal to account for all revenues earned from the monitor, and to have the tune taken down from all digital platforms.
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Though Medikal reportedly eliminated the primary ten seconds of the monitor from YouTube, the unique model reportedly stays accessible on Audiomack, Boomplay, Spotify, and Apple Music.
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Alabaster Field views this partial removing, with none prior communication, as “disrespectful” and interprets it as an “act of contrition.”
The case is anticipated to be heard on the Excessive Courtroom of Justice in Accra, the place the end result might have vital implications for copyright enforcement in Ghana’s music business.
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