Word has it that Nigerian rapper elDee is set to battle cell phone manufacturer Techno over copyright infringement act. According to the gist, The company was alleged to have pre-loaded different songs recorded by some Nigerian artistes, onto memory cards which are embedded in the phones being sold without due consultations or permission from the artistes to use the songs.
Championing the course of Nigerian artistes in this ugly development is Lanre Dabiri aka eLDee.
Reports have it that eLDee and his consultants, Maxaro Consulting on realising that one of his songs, “Bosi Gbangba” is currently enlisted among the songs pre-loaded on the phones; approached the company to pay royalty for using the song.
Instead of the company to try to reach an agreement with the artist by granting him audience they arrogantly claimed they were helping the artiste to promote his song.
Following a case filed in the court, the presiding judge ordered eLDee and his lawyers to visit Tecno’s local agents and representatives and seize all the infringing phones and any documents related to them.
