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Producer and tech analyst, Kwabena Ofei-Kwadey Nkrumah, popularly known as Spiky, is suing the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for alleged copyright infringement.<\/p>\n
In court documents sighted by MyJoyOnline.com<\/strong>, Spiky contended that the football governing board used his musical beat, \u2018Okomfo Anokye\u2019, for promotional materials for the 2018 CAF awards without his consent.<\/p>\n Lawyers for Spiky indicated that CAF plagiarised, appropriated and infringed on the producer\u2019s copyright when they failed to acknowledge him as the owner.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Plaintiff asserts that, the Defendants\u2019 conduct was in blatant disrespect and disregard for Plaintiff\u2019s proprietary rights in his music and a flagrant and brazen infringement of Plaintiff\u2019s copyright which said acts of Defendants, has caused Plaintiff loss of substantial revenue from any licensing of his music for commercial use,\u201d parts of the documents read.<\/p>\n This comes three years after Spiky called out CAF for copyright infringement in a series of tweets in 2019.<\/p>\n It\u2019s bad enough that you didn\u2019t ask for permission or pay for the beat you used. I know the promo was done by an agency and that agency got paid. I didn\u2019t! And that\u2019s what pisses me off. Someone\u2019s making money off my hard work, for you @CAF_Online<\/a> .<\/p>\n \u2014 Kobby Spiky Nkrumah (@therealSpiky) March 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cA young producer, working hard to make ends meet, the least you could do, some sort of remuneration, to motivate and inspire. But no! They just ignored me,\u201d he wrote in his tweets.<\/p>\n How would you feel if someone created another @CAF_Online<\/a> account and was taking credit for everything you did?<\/p>\n All this could\u2019ve been prevented by just giving credit to the composer. At least that way someone would\u2019ve seen and PAID for my services.<\/p>\n \u2014 Kobby Spiky Nkrumah (@therealSpiky) March 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In the documents, the producer noted that CAF had sent an email admitting to the infringement and rendering an apology to him, however, they failed to reply when he demanded to be compensated.<\/p>\n I mean it\u2019s clearly stated on my YouTube channel, to contact me if you want to use it for COMMERCIAL purposes. pic.twitter.com\/15eAnfEqyR<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kobby Spiky Nkrumah (@therealSpiky) March 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hence among other things, Spiky is seeking, \u201ca declaration that by boldly using Plaintiff\u2019s \u201cSPIKY \u2013 OKOMFO ANOKYE\u201d beat\/instrumental music for commercial purposes without Plaintiff\u2019s prior consent, Also, he is seeking an order for CAF \u201cto account for profit for the commercial use of Plaintiff\u2019s copyrighted work\u201d and also \u201cgeneral damages for the infringement of the Plaintiffs\u2019 copyright by the unauthorized commercial use of the Plaintiff\u2019s \u201cSPIKY \u2013 OKOMFO ANOKYE\u201d beat\/instrumental music and failure to name Plaintiff as the Copyright owner on the infringing materials and the abuse of Plaintiff\u2019s human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n A week has gone by and not a word from @CAF_Online<\/a>\u2026\n
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Defendant has flagrantly and brazenly infringed on Plaintiff\u2019s Copyright.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
Yet I can see them on my TL promoting the AFCON 2019.
See, I\u2019m going to put everything I have behind this and seek legal redress.<\/p>\n