A Nigerian lawyer urges legendary highlife musician Gentleman Mike Ejeagha to sue skit maker, Brain Jotter for using his song to make millions of naira while offering just N2 million in compensation.
This came after the skit maker began his search for the highlife singer following a viral skit featuring his song from 2010.
Taking to the X platform, the legal practitioner known simply as Nupe Lawyer stressed the implication of Copyright Infringement.
According to him, Mike Ejeagha would make more money suing Brain Jotter than receiving the token of N2 million naira as compensation.
“I hope the man has a good lawyer😀 you can’t use someone’s song for content raking millions and offer to give the man “2million” as if you are helping the man🤷♂️,” he wrote.
The tweet has received varied reactions from social media users, who argued that the music has remained inactive for 14 years and has never made that much.
See comments below…
@bigmorsh said: “Not sure the man go do any case sef after 2 million. Since the song has been there, did it fetch him 2m?”
@OritogunM penned: “He danced to the song; he didn’t utter a single word, didn’t change the lyrics, didn’t change the tone, didn’t perform the song on stage, the man’s name appeared on the original song tag on instagram. Now he has to pay royalties? Megan Thee Stallion is presently trending on TikTok; she should also demand royalties from people for dancing to her song?”
@IdanFederal opined: “People are funny sha. person dance to song and be blow. if na so he dey be you know how many artist go don blow?…nobody claimed any intellectual property here like say e reproduce am.”
@Creed_printz stated: “Wtf is two million, we ain’t serious in this country.”
@revelationrabbi noted: “The funny thing is that the same Nigerians who can’t wrap their heads around the infringement of intellectual property as theft are the same Nigerians who want to protest against bad governance.”
