Dibango takes Michael Jaskson and Rihanna to court

My last blog is about intellectual property.
For this blog, I found an article on the internet about a discussion of plagiarism.

Manu Dibango, a Cameroonian saxophonist, lives in Paris. He filed a lawsuit in Paris against both Rihanna and Michael Jackson. Dibango, aged 75 years, is really convinced about the fact that Jackson and Rihanna have stolen several parts from his song: ‘Soul Makossa’ for their song ‘Wanna be startin something’.
Jackson already admitted that he used parts of ‘Soul Makossa’ for his song ‘Wanna be startin something’. But he says that he had an arrangement with Dibango ,a couple of years ago, about this.

The new court is about Jackson, who gave permission to Rihanna to use a part of his song for her single ‘Please don’t stop the music’. Dibango says he never gave permission to Jackson for this.

Dibango is demanding 650.000 Euros in damages and he asked the France Court of Justice to freeze all ‘mama –say mama –sa’-related income of the plate companies Sony BMG, EMI and Warner, until the matter is resolved.
Recently, Michael Jackson was accused by the director of the video clip ‘Thriller’. The filmmaker ,John Landis, didn’t get any royalties during the last four years. Although, they had signed a contract to get both half of income obtained from the video.

I think it must be really hard for a 'little musician' to sue big artists like Michael Jackson and Rihanna. They have a lot of connections and they have the best lawyers, who will try everything in court to get their right. It also costs a lot of money when you lose the case.

A lot of text and musicparts are stolen from other people, but the victims are powerless or they don’t see a reason to do all the effort. It's not feasable,people think.
But I believe in court and in Justice. It may not matter how poor or how rich and famous you are.



Source:
http://www.annet.be/celeb/plagiaat