King Sunny Ade Awarded N500M for Copyright Infringement By Court

                   

Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday awarded King Sunny Ade  a sum of N500M for copyright Infringement.
He sued a record manufacturing company. Africa Songs and it subsidiary, take your Choice store about 30 years ago.

The court awarded the sum and also an additional N3million for prosecuting the suit.The two companies were ordered to pay the sum by Justice James Tsoho, who delivered judgment in the suit first filed by the musician in 1975.
KSA had stated in his statement that a contract dispute arose between him and the two companies culminating in a judgment delivered by a Lagos High Court.According to him, the court ordered the companies to return the master tapes of the original musical works to him.He said before the master tape could be returned, the companies’ Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Chief Bolarinwa Abioro, died.