Hiplife legend Barima Sidney has disclosed that Dr. Bawumia will not compensate his colleague DJ Azonto for dancing to his popular song “Fa No Fom” during his campaign rally.
DJ Azonto and his management in a statement released last Friday demanded that Vice President Dr. Bawumia pay him $10 million after he danced to ‘Fa No Fom’ at his political rally some weeks ago.
But in an interview on Property FM in Cape Coast, Barima Sidney explained that per the copyrights law in Ghana DJ Azonto is far from receiving any compensation from the Vice-President.
The hiplife legend explained, “When a political party is doing a rally and they play your song on the platform while dancing to it, our law doesn’t say that they must pay you for it.
“Because it’s a song you’ve already released in the public domain, it’s like your song being played at someone’s birthday party and you asking for monetary compensation.
“But when they take the song and cut it by using it for an advert and place it on TV or Radio jingle after sampling bits of it, as for that one, my lawyer told me they’d have to pay for using your song,” he said.
Barima Sidney known in real life as Sidney Kofi Ofori further added that, “If they use it for advertising, that one you can sue them, but playing your song and dancing to it at a political party rally doesn’t require compensation according to our copyright laws.”
