Producer, Spiky, sues CAF for copyright infringement - www.asempanews.com

Producer and tech analyst, Kwabena Ofei-Kwadey Nkrumah, popularly known as Spiky, is suing the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for alleged copyright infringement.

Lawyers for Spiky indicated that CAF plagiarised, appropriated and infringed on the producer’s copyright when they failed to acknowledge him as the owner.

“The Plaintiff asserts that, the Defendants’ conduct was in blatant disrespect and disregard for Plaintiff’s proprietary rights in his music and a flagrant and brazen infringement of Plaintiff’s copyright which said acts of Defendants, has caused Plaintiff loss of substantial revenue from any licensing of his music for commercial use,” parts of the documents read.

Hence among other things, Spiky is seeking, “a declaration that by boldly using Plaintiff’s “SPIKY – OKOMFO ANOKYE” beat/instrumental music for commercial purposes without Plaintiff’s prior consent,Defendant has flagrantly and brazenly infringed on Plaintiff’s Copyright.”

Also, he is seeking an order for CAF “to account for profit for the commercial use of Plaintiff’s copyrighted work” and also “general damages for the infringement of the Plaintiffs’ copyright by the unauthorized commercial use of the Plaintiff’s “SPIKY – OKOMFO ANOKYE” beat/instrumental music and failure to name Plaintiff as the Copyright owner on the infringing materials and the abuse of Plaintiff’s human rights.”

But, CAF denied using the soundtrack for commercial purposes, as the awards were a non-profit event.

They stated that they pulled down the artwork with Spiky’s background music from all their social media platforms and apologised on the same day that the plaintiff’s claim came to their attention.