Few months back Asu Ekiye came up with an article attacking Akpororo Singing Donnie Mc Clurkin song and now Sammie Okposo for Singing his song in the just concluding The Experience Lagos.
He wrote
A WORD TO THE ORGANIZERS OF "THE EXPERIENCE" GOSPEL CONCERT IN NIGERIA.
THE best way to promote gospel music in Nigeria is to encourage and enhance the core tenets of creativity and originality. When copyright laws are recklessly infringed upon In the dimension that we witness in the gospel community in Nigeria, we might be at the risk of attracting unwarranted litigation in the near future and also courting unnecessary backlash from avoidable disregard of copyright laws both nationally and internationally.
My counsel to HOTR and the Team at the Experience concert is this: No artiste mounting your stage should stand there emboldened by unathourised or stolen works of copyrighted materials. If for any reason songs are to be used which are outside the purview of the performer , they should secure due permission as is done internationally.
I AM not against the use of other people's songs which one is inspired to sing in the course of a ministration, I myself do that when am inspired. But the emphasis here should be that it must be done moderately and with a sense of responsibility. But to concentrate on the performance of songs for which the artiste are not the original writers or performers will be the height of mediocrity and illegality. Let us begin to encourage sound and proper practices even in Christiandom in Nigeria.
ASU Ekiye
Source: Bayelsa Gospel community
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