AKA’s record label embroiled in lawsuit

AKA’s record label, Universal Music South Africa is involved in a lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by a member of an 80s group, over a song he sampled.

The suit is over a song that AKA sang, One Time, which is claimed to be from a hit song, Party Weekend.

Musician Enos Thembinkosi Lubisi, has filed court papers stating he never gave AKA rights to his song.

He has thus asked the court to declare him the sole copyright-holder of the song, including AKA’s adaptation of it, stating that he had not assigned them any copyrights or permission to rework it.

AKA had earlier on acknowledged using some of the lyrics from Lubisi’s work. He went ahead to apologize to him, and wanted to credit the producer but struggled to locate him.

Lubisi has pleaded to the court to declare him the sole holder of the copyrights. For him, failure to do so will see him losing all rights to a company he never dealt with at any stage of his musical career.