{"id":395519,"date":"2017-06-13T15:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/13\/author-slams-n100m-lawsuit-on-actress-stephanie-okereke\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:34:35","slug":"author-slams-n100m-lawsuit-on-actress-stephanie-okereke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/13\/author-slams-n100m-lawsuit-on-actress-stephanie-okereke\/","title":{"rendered":"Author slams N100m lawsuit on actress Stephanie Okereke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!--               \n\n<div class=\"in-ad\">\n\n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1495043641385-0' style='height:250px; width:300px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n              <\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p>Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke, has been slammed a N100m (about $318,000) lawsuit by an author \u2013 Daniella Madudu \u2013 for alleged copyright infringement of her book titled: \u201cBehind Her Veil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Madudu claims that major parts of her book were lifted and used without any form of acknowledgement to her in Stephanie Okereke\u2019s movie \u2013 \u201cDry\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the author, she gave the manuscripts of the book to one of her friends, Joy Ndidi, who later became Stephanie\u2019s Personal Assistant, to edit; only for her to see major excerpts of her book revealed in Stephanie Okereke Linus\u2019 movie, Dry.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline.com_InArticle_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>But the actress in a statement maintained that her movie had been registered with the National Copyright Commission since 2012, while the book was officially published in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The actress also stated that the said book has never been registered with the NCC till date.<\/p>\n<p>She further said that her movie \u2018DRY \u2018was shot in a bid to lend her voice<br \/>to the child not bride campaign.<\/p>\n<p>However, the actress admitted receiving a letter from one Rafiu Bello acting on behalf of Daniella Madudu on May 19, accusing her of appropriation of an \u2018original literary work\u2019 that was allegedly stolen from her by Joy Ndidi.<\/p>\n<p>Okereke Linus said that among many other things, the letter demanded that she credits Madudu with ownership of her work, pay the sum of N60,000,000 (about $190,000) and royalties, or face a \u2018campaign of calumny.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke, has been slammed a N100m (about $318,000) lawsuit by an author \u2013 Daniella Madudu \u2013 for alleged copyright infringement of her book titled: \u201cBehind Her Veil.\u201d Madudu claims that major parts of her book were lifted and used without any form of acknowledgement to her in Stephanie Okereke\u2019s movie \u2013 \u201cDry\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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