Song Theft: ‘She’s In Trouble’ – Sir Victor Uwaifo threatens to sue Simi for ‘Joromi’ music theft

Incredible Musician, Sir Victor Uwaifo, says artist Simi, is in a bad position for “stealing” his licensed property, ‘Joromi’.

Victor Uwaifo who discharged the creature hit tune ‘Joromi’ in 1969 says the melody, which brought him acclaim and fortune, has now turned into a casualty of licensed property theft as Simi neglected to offer credit to him when she discharged her own variant in 2017.

Victor Uwaifo in a meeting with SaharaReporters at the Annual General Meeting of Copyright Society of Nigeria COSON, held at Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria portrayed copyright and Intellectual property as an intense issue in Nigeria, saying it must be managed direly as it is diminishing the innovativeness of the new age of Musician.

As indicated by him, the way toward making music has now essentially changed from what it used to be in his opportunity, as “more mediocres” are presently in the diversion.

“Copyright is a very serious business and the contravention of copyright laws is more serious than you can imagine,” the Professor of Art told to SaharaReporters. Most people still believe that someone can just pick somebody’s work, which we call intellectual property right, and use it for his own benefit of the detriment of the composer, the man who actually created the work.

You know it takes time to create a work; it takes a lot of research to be able to come out with a piece of work. You know one single track is equivalent to research journal and then a whole record is equivalent to a book publication, so people don’t understand it they don’t know. You don’t just wake up in the university then you just put anything down and you call it a journal or a book. It takes a lot of research to be able to do one piece of music. The composition, the lyrics, the music, the score, the arrangement, the production and booking of the studio all cost money, and someone will just come and take the work and use it as his own or probably do an advert on it.”

Uwaifo reviewed how he sued Pepsi for N500million for utilizing one of his melodies in one of its adverts without following the due procedure.

“I’m suing Pepsi for N500million; the case is already at the Federal High Court in Benin.” When asked if he was going to take any legal action against Simi, he replied: “One after the other. I cannot just take everybody to court at the same time. I don’t know whether he or she; I know she is but I know somebody is behind it.

An LP was sent as a compliment; I’m still looking at it but they were planning to come to Benin to see me; up till now, they haven’t come, so I’m just putting that one on hold. ‘Joromi’ is a franchise; the name never existed before. Benin don’t have “J” in their language; if any started with ‘J’ in Benin then it is fake. All consonant words start with vowel sounds. For example, if I use the trademark of one of these soft drinks, it is wrong. So Simi is in trouble.”

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