Tiwa Savage’s song taken off YouTube after Danny Young alleges plagiarism
Written by MAX FM on January 24, 2019
‘One’, a single released by Tiwa Savage in November 2018, has been taken down from YouTube.
Danny Young, an Afropop artiste, had alleged that the singer lifted the lyrics of his song for her single.
Young’s song, ‘Oju Ti Ti Won’, was released in 2008. He had threatened to file an intellectual copyright suit against Savage.
While the outcome of his threat is yet to be known, it was discovered on Wednesday that the video for ‘One’ is no longer available on the YouTube page of Savage.
In place of the video is a message which reads:
“Tiwa Savage One is no longer available due to a copyright claim by a third party.”
Young confirmed to NET that he filed the complaint against the singer.
He said:
“When I heard her song last year, my lawyers reached out to her lawyers but they ignored us. They thought it was just one small boy talking.”
“Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for Tiwa Savage and I respect her craft as well, but you see, two brothers can have a case in court and still have a good relationship with each other.
“Tiwa and every other singer out there is a role model, so we must not continue to operate in an industry that has no structure. I am just trying to do the right thing and trying to prove that copyright issues must be taken seriously especially in the Nigerian entertainment industry.”
