Africa Music Law™

You all already know it is a major pet peeve of every blogger, journalist and publisher (print or online) to see their work stolen and attributed as work produced by the thieves. Yet, this act of stealing the content of [...]

QUESTION: Should local artists, especially the really good ones i.e. mega-local music stars, receive lower fees when they perform alongside their foreign counterparts in their local markets? In 2007, when I conducted D’Banj’s first and exclusive interview in his first [...]

Celebrated singer and 2007 Idols West Africa finalist, Omawumi, released the song ‘Bottom Belle’ a few months ago. From all indications in the marketing, promotions and packaging of her hit single, this was an original song by Omawumi featuring Flavour. [...]

“G.O.O.D Music Artists D’banj and Don Jazzy At Odds With Each Other; D’banj Accused Of Credit Card Fraud!” is the headline that Allhiphop.com, a highly influential American music website with over 35million page views a month, ran yesterday. The part [...]

Lord have Mercy. After a long day of work, I get on the web and what hits me? AML music industry people wetin nau? How some of una dey take open una yansh like dis? Una dey embarrass me for [...]

This week has been quite busy for me. But, I hope to carve out time to close out the D’Banj v. Don Jazzy legal shenanigans so we can get rolling on more music business, legal issues et. al affecting the [...]

I have said and insisted, many times, that D’Banj needs to separate his stage identity from his identity as a business man and artist  who speaks or interacts with the press. Majority of the times, I have been the only [...]

Phew! You guys we made it to Friday. Thank God. I feel blessed and I hope you all feel the same. My week started cool, got rough but ended on a very high note. I am grateful for all the [...]

As a preview to my week long coverage of  the myriad legal issues raised in the D’Banj v. Don Jazzy Mo’Hits case, I mentioned the numerous areas of law involved i.e. intellectual property law, company law, labour law, contract law, [...]

  AML Industry, arists, welcome to a new week. This week, I will focus on the Mo’Hits case and I will take it in chunks. The issues here are very serious. Stop. Y’all didn’t hear me. The issues are quite [...]

One of the reasons I do not like discussing or “breaking” insider information on disputes or drama between industry persons, among many valid reasons, is because TIME takes care of all of that. Punch Newspaper publishes the legal battle between [...]

This report on TheNETng.com is not making sense. According to NETng.com, M.I had a party yesterday to launch Loopy Music Records.He unveiled the three artists promised. However, he also unveiled two other artists Ice Prince and Jesse Jagz? TheNetng.com also [...]