Ultima Limited, producer of popular music talent hunt show, Project Fame, has denied the infringement claims levelled against the outfit by singer and producer, Paul Play Dairo.
In a statement, Ultima said the outfit is
not owing Paul Play or any artiste royalties for the use of their musical works in its show.
It said Ultima, “as a law abiding corporate citizen, respecting the rights of all stakeholders in her conduct of business,” has duly paid Copyrights Society of Nigeria, COSON, which was the government approved collecting agency, for all musical works that they used.
“As is standard practice all over the world, rather than maintain individual agreements with each one of the hundreds of artistes whose songs we use, we have a single agreement with their collection body, COSON, who in turn is responsible for dealing with each individual artiste. They are responsible for collecting such payments on behalf of Nigerian artistes, and Ultima has duly paid COSON for use of such music,” stated the production outfit.
Explaining further, Ultima pointed out that for the past five seasons of Project Fame, it annually made the statutory payments due and required for the use of musical works for both local and international artistes used on the Project Fame show.
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