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Obrafour Eyes 10 Million Dollars As He Sues Drake Over Copyright Infringement

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Veteran Ghanaian rapper, Michael Elliot Kwabena Okyere Darko, known widely as Obrafour, has filed a suit against Drake.

He sued the Ghanaian rapper for sampling his ‘Oye Ohene’ song without his consent.

The Ghanaian rapper is eying 10 million dollars as damages in this lawsuit.

In documents presented to a court in New York, Obrafour stated that Drake infringed on his copyright when he sampled his song without permission.

“Defendants 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’s permission for the use of the Copyrighted Work in the Infringing Work.”

“Obrafour never granted Defendants permission to use the Copyrighted Work and the Infringing work was released mere days later,” parts of the document read.

He argued that Drake and others have benefited from his work.

“To 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 Music.”

“In 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.”

Obrafour is seeking an injunction requiring the “defendants 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’s rights protected by the Copyright Act.”

Drake sampled ‘Oye Ohene’ on his song ‘Calling My Name’ off the Honestly Nevermind album.

Obrafour and Drake

Source
Newshuntermag.com

Kofi Oppong Kyekyeku

I am a Ghanaian Broadcast Journalist/Writer who has an interest in General News, Sports, Entertainment, Health, Lifestyle and many more.

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