China based phone manufacturer: Tecno, makers of the Tecno brand of mobile phones- one of more popular and fast selling ‘China phones‘ in Nigeria, has been taken to court by Lanre Dabiri aka eLDee tha Don, for illegal use of intellectual property.

The phone company has been alleged to sell along with their phones, songs recorded by some Nigerian artistes, without due consultations or permission from the artistes to use the songs. As at press time, the company has made no moves to compensate the acts whose rights were infringed.

When eLDee and his consultants, Maxaro Consulting realised that one of his song, ‘Bosi Gbangba’, is among the songs pre-loaded on the phones, they approached the company to pay royalty for using the song. Tecno showed no remorse by granting the artiste audience to reach an agreement; instead they claimed they were helping the artiste to promote his song.

After filing a case 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 all documents related to them.

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He wants compensation from a CHINESE company?

him go old nah.