{"id":59717,"date":"2023-04-20T12:56:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T12:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/20\/obrafour-sues-drake\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T12:56:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T12:56:54","slug":"obrafour-sues-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/20\/obrafour-sues-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"Obrafour Sues Drake &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Obrafour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Legendary rapper, Obrafour is reportedly suing Drake for $10 million, after the Canadian rapper sampled his song, Oye Ohene Remix on his track, Calling My Name.<\/p>\n<p>Drake is being accused of sampling his song without his permission.<\/p>\n<p>According to documents presented to a court in New York, Drake infringed on Obrafour\u2019s copyright when he sampled his song without permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefendants released the Infringing Work on June 17, 2022, despite the fact that an agent of one or more Defendants had previously contacted Obrafour seeking to obtain Obrafour\u2019s permission for the use of the Copyrighted Work in the Infringing Work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObrafour never granted Defendants permission to use the Copyrighted Work and the Infringing work was released mere days later,\u201d Myjoyonline quoted parts of the documents in its report.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian rapper argued in the documents that Drake and other defendants following the release of \u2018Calling My Name\u2019 has greatly benefited from his work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo date, over the mere 304 days that have elapsed since the Infringing Work was released, the Infringing Work has already been streamed over 4.1 million times on YouTube, streamed over 47,442,160 times on Spotify, and streamed tens of millions of times on Apple .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to generating enormous sums of global streams and sales across numerous platforms, the Infringing Work has also been exploited by the Defendants via other means, including live performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among others, Obrafour is seeking damages in an amount not less than $10,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>He is also seeking an injunction requiring the \u201cdefendants and their agents, employees, officers, attorneys, successors, licensees, partners, and assigns, and all persons acting in concert or participation with each or any one of them, to cease directly and indirectly infringing, and causing, enabling, facilitating, encouraging, promoting, inducing, and\/or participating in the infringement of any of Obrafour\u2019s rights protected by the Copyright Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, other defendants in the suit include writers, producers, performers, record labels, entertainment companies, publishers, managers, administrators, and\/or distributors of the infringing work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obrafour Legendary rapper, Obrafour is reportedly suing Drake for $10 million, after the Canadian rapper sampled his song, Oye Ohene Remix on his track, Calling My Name. 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