Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Dagrin Movie: ‘We Have No Case To Answer’ – Virgin Atlantic


Source The Management of Virgin Atlantic, has stated that it did not infringe on copyright laws concerning the biopic of late Nigerian rapper, DaGrin. This follows the release two weeks ago, by the producers of the biopic Stingomania, saying the airline had infringed on their copyright by allegedly
listing and airing the movie as part of Virgin’s in-flight entertainment for passengers on their planes.

An official in charge of press matters at Virgin Atlantic’s corporate office at Ikeja, Lagos, Bennet Scot, who spoke with NET, says the Richard Branson-owned airline ‘has no case to answer.’
Virgin Nigeria has not infringed on any laws concerning this matter and any legal issue regarding this is to be resolved by the global production company and the producers‘, said the official.
When probed further if Virgin Atlantic had no case to
Stingomania Records had brought a lawsuit agaginst the company for what it alleged were flagrant disregard of copyright laws on the protected work, 'Ghetto Dreamz'.

Stingomania says it is suing the airline for damages to the tune of N1Bn (N1,000,000,000) as well as N50M as cost of prosecution.

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