BREAKING! G-Worldwide Drags Kiss Daniel To Court (Their Reasons Will Surprise You)
Nigerian
pop star, Anidugbe Oluwatobiloba Daniel, popularly known as Kiss
Daniel, has been dragged to court by the management of G-Worldwide
Entertainment, for allegedly breaching the seven years artiste
management deal he signed with the record label in 2013.
According to information made available to Vanguard by the management
of G-Worldwide Entertainment Limited, Kiss Daniel signed a yet to
expire 7-year recording and artiste management contract with the label
in 2013, but has since breached the deal with a series of actions
contrary to the provisions of the contract.
Counsel to the label, Mr. Aso Kalu Etea, noted that by appointing a
new manager, soliciting for bookings, negotiating and entering
performance agreements in respect to songs from his album ‘New Era’, and
his yet to be released album titled ‘Evolution’, containing singles
such as Yeba, For You, Senorita, Sofa and others, bothproduced under the
contract, including using the stage name ‘Kiss Daniel’ without seeking
the label’s permission, Kiss Daniel has since breached the deal he
signed with the label which is why legal actions have been taken against
him.
The attention of G-Worldwide Entertainment Limited (‘the
Company’) has been drawn to acts by Oluwatobiloba Daniel Anidugbe (alias
‘Kiss Daniel’), who recently has been making publications on different
print media and social media platforms soliciting for bookings to
perform songs from his album NEW ERA and EVOLUTION. Mr. Anidugbe
executed a 7-year Recording and Artist Management Contract (’the
Contract’) with the Company in 2013 and which Contract is still
subsisting.
“Contrary to the express provisions of the Contract, Mr. Anidugbe has
taken steps to appoint a new manager, solicited for bookings, and has
continued to negotiate and enter performance agreements in respect of
the songs from the album NEW ERA, and EVOLUTION which is set to be
released soon containing singles such as YEBA, FOR YOU, SENORITA, SOFA
and others, both produced under the Contract, including using the stage
name ‘Kiss Daniel’ without the Company’s prior consent and permission.
Further thereto, the Company has approached the Federal High Court,
Lagos in suit no. FHC/L/CS/1758/2017 between G-WORLDWIDE ENT. LIMITED Vs
OLUWATOBILOBA DANIEL ANIDUGBE to affirm its rights over the
intellectual property under the Contract i.e. copyrights over the songs
in both albums, and rights over the stage name: ‘Kiss Daniel’.
By an application dated 20th November 2017, the Company sought
interim orders of injunction, and other further orders as the Court may
deem fit to make, against Mr. Anidugbe, retraining the Artiste’s further
distribution, publication, or performance of these songs, or
negotiating or entering any agreement thereof without the consent or
permission of G-Worldwide Entertainment Ltd.
The general public and the whole world is hereby put on notice that
on the 30th day of November 2017, the Federal High Court made an order
that status quo ante bellum under the Contract, be maintained by the
parties, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice
filed in the suit.
The import of the Order being that the state under which the parties
existed under the Contract should be preserved until the Court makes a
determination of the motion on notice filed by the Company. All and any
dealings in respect of the upload, distribution, and or performance of
any of the songs, as well as the use or exploitation of the name ‘Kiss
Daniel’ can therefore only be entered or made with the prior written
consent and permission of the Company as provided under the Contract.
The general public and the whole world is further cautioned that as
the matter is now before a Court of law (subjudice), and following the
Order to maintain status quo, any unauthorized upload, distribution,
exploitation, performance, sales, and use of the songs (from the NEW ERA
and EVOLUTION albums), or stage name ‘Kiss Daniel’, in any show, event,
downloading or streaming platform, will be in violation of the Order of
the Federal High Court.
Anyone who does or continues to do so shall be liable as an
accomplice for contempt of court, and the full weight of the law will be
brought against that person as a contemnor.
Any person or organization who negotiates, or enters into any
agreement with Mr. Anidugbe to engage him on the basis of his presumed
rights over the songs in both albums, or the use of the stage name ‘Kiss
Daniel’, does so at his or her own risk and peril.
However, as at
the time of this report, efforts to reach Kiss Daniel have been futile
as he is said to be very busy consolidating plans for his new label,
FLYBOI INC.
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