After a long musical break, singer Van Data came back and invested heavily in a song with Daddy Andre, funded the audio, video and promotion but after uploading it online, Black Market Records claimed it, earning money from it.
Van Data says that he found it rather disrespectful that a record label that was not involved at all in the music project would later on claim its ownership after it received good airplay.
Through his social media platforms, Van Data said that he managed to fight off the exploitation but wonders how other artistes who cannot fight for their work deal under such circumstances.
Below is his full statement:
"In 2019 I decided to take a break from commercial music and just record or keep doing my other music related stuff until this year when I decided to get back and released one of my songs "Personal person" featuring Daddy Andre.
The major reason I took a break was the disrespet for artistes from almost all angles, when I got back this year I thought things had become better somehow but getting back on top of disrespect there is also robbery, I mean no disrespect but how does a record company that invested completely nothing in a project claim its copy right 😳 for an artiste's song that you completely have no claims on? You have never met the artiste, you have never had a conversation with him, you don't even know when, how and what was involved in the making of the project. Not even how its being promoted but after the project gets a promising reception from the public then boom you run to claim the copy right. To make it more disrespectful from the song that is posted on my own platforms, my own YouTube channel , what kind of fckery is that??
Watch the Song Below:
luckily enough I could fight for what is rightfully mine but m still wondering what happens to those artists who can't seriously fight for their work?? something serious has to be done for the respect of this industry coz its really funny how people would want to harvest from what they didn't plant,irrigate/water, or weed. also the selfishness among artists is also very much anyways its all a shock for me. "
