{"id":175146,"date":"2024-06-24T01:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T23:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-copyright-office-urges-team-eternity-to-opt-for-out-of-court-settlement-after-song-theft-claims\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T01:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T23:32:06","slug":"ghana-copyright-office-urges-team-eternity-to-opt-for-out-of-court-settlement-after-song-theft-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-copyright-office-urges-team-eternity-to-opt-for-out-of-court-settlement-after-song-theft-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Copyright Office Urges Team Eternity to Opt for Out of Court Settlement After Song Theft Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>The Defe Defe hitmakers have been hit with claims of sampling a line from a 2004 song<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Gospel music collective, <a href=\"https:\/\/theaccratimes.com\/the-undeniable-effect-of-team-eternitys-defe-defe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Team Eternity Ghana<\/a>, has been urged by the Ghanaian Copyright Office to settle any copyright disputes pertaining to their popular song, &#8220;Defe Defe,&#8221; in order to prevent legal consequences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The copyright dispute comes after music producer, Kwame Mickey, claimed that Team Eternity had sampled the &#8220;Defe Defe&#8221; line from a song he had previously executive produced for Hallelujah Voices of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406210387.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defe Defe hitmakers have been hit with claims of sampling a line from a 2004 song Gospel music collective, Team Eternity Ghana, has been urged by the Ghanaian Copyright Office to settle any copyright disputes pertaining to their popular song, &#8220;Defe Defe,&#8221; in order to prevent legal consequences. The copyright dispute comes after music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8117,26945,6185,48853,4508,4509,257,8089,10784,9719,4333,254,7142,9201,6810],"class_list":["post-175146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-copyright","tag-court","tag-eternity","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-office","tag-opt","tag-settlement","tag-song","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-theft","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}