Movie producer and Stingomania Records boss, Ope Banwo, is reportedly suing Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic for N1 billion over an alleged infringement of the company’s rights on the Dagrin biopic ‘Ghetto Dreamz’.
Banwo alleges, in a Bigsam Media statement, that Virgin Atlantic played the full length of the movie ‘on over 71 international routes of the airline.” He further alleges that “the video content and soundtracks were also played in their office, they uploaded a trailer and exhibited a poster of the movie on two of their websites including www.virgin-atlantic.com/ng, virginatlantic.mymovies.net.
The Stingomania C.E.O also claims that the contents of the movie and particulars were also published in their inflight magazines circulated across all routes, travel agencies and inflight.
Banwo is suing the airline for N1 billion as compensation and N5 million as the cost of prosecution. He has, also, requested for the court to mandate the defendants to publish apologies in three national newspapers, on the defendants’ websites and in their inflight magazine.
According to the statement, Justice Adah of the Federal High Court, Lagos has granted an exparte order restraining the Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd “whether by themselves, agents, privies, management, directors, pilots, flight crew etc” from infringing or continuing to infringe the copyright in any audio, performance, soundtrack, cinematograph rights and audio-visual musical recordings of the plaintiff, Ope Banwo.
The statement also says that the court adjourned the case to March 12, 2012. ‘GHETTO DREAMZ’, the biopic based on the life of the late rapper Dagrin which stars budding music act Trybson Dudukoko, AMAA winner, Doris Simeon, Rachael Oniga, Pa Kasumu, Kenny St. Brown, Jaywon, Gabriel Afolayan and fast rising Oyindamola Odesola among others hit the cinemas in April 2011 as part of the first anniversary memorial project in honour of the late rapper.
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