Twitter has withheld a tweet by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo for copyright violation.

On March 8, the vice-president posted a video in commemoration of International Women’s Day. Beyonce’s song ‘Run the World’ was used as the video’s audio.

Quoting the tweet that same day, a Twitter user @olayknowless, had asked Beyonce to report Osinbajo’s account for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”).

“Ma’am @Beyonce, Nigeria’s current Vice President who has never properly done his job has used your song without permission, ask Jack your good friend to take care of his account In accordance with DMCA violation penalties,” the user wrote.

The microblogging site took down the tweet afterwards, though the exact day this was done is not known.

“This tweet has been withheld in response to a report from the copyright holder,” Twitter said on the post.

The removal of the post went viral on Wednesday, shortly after the user who made the complaint discovered that action had been taken.

In June, Twitter deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet where he threatened to treat Nigerians “misbehaving” in “the language they understand”.

In the tweet, Buhari cited the civil war and threatened to deal with those “bent on destroying” Nigeria through “insurrection”.

“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand,” he had said.

The microblogging site deleted the message the next day after a public outcry.

The government on June 4 announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria afterwards.

The government, however, said the suspension had nothing to do with the deletion of the president’s tweet.

obehi247:
you mean the professor commited plagiarism

obehi247:
you mean the professor commited plagiarism

slivertongue:
APC folks are copy cats

omenkaLives:
Another ignoramus who knows not the difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism.

Probably ipob.

DubaiLandLord2:
Wetin the stupid person wey report the tweet gain now...

Iliveforever:
Professor indeed. They should sue him jare and I thought they banned twitter? So what he doing there?

Kdon2:


You want to sue a professor of law! Waste of time

omenkaLives:
Another ignoramus who knows not the difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism.

Probably ipob.

Esseite:


Either plagiarism or copyright infringement, they all have one thing in common... Theft...

ChiefSosa:

The law is the law. If Osinbajo wants to use Beyoncé's music, then [b]he should ask her for permission.[/b]

Osinbajo's tweet was made on March 8; months before twitter was banned.

Iliveforever:


He should still be sued

obehi247:
you mean the professor commited plagiarism

omenkaLives:
As ignorant as ever. Copyright infringement is not theft you ignorant ipob. It is simply the use of an intellectual property without authorization from its owner.

You ignorant kids just come only, leave your brain behind wherever you're coming from, replace your minds with pdp/ipob junk, and then yap away like some programmed bot.

omenkaLives:
They said COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, not plagiarism.

Go school, some of una refuse. Read ma, una refuse. If you had taken a moment to read, you'd understand the action was simply taken because he used Beyonce's song as a background soundtrack on a video he made commemorating Women's Day. It is not a big deal.

He made the post on MARCH 8 and it was removed YESTERDAY, yet some folks still noticed!! Omo, witchcraft is real!!

By the way, we all do this EVERYDAY on social media. How many videos, pictures, or songs do we contact their owners before using? Probably none!