Few days ago, a new song by Wizkid and his new collaborator Drake appeared online to the
excitement of fans all over.
The track ‘Hush Up The Silence (Come Closer)’ admittedly sounded like it was
unfinished, but it didn’t matter to the millions of Wizkid fans across the
world.
According to Nigerian
Entertainment Today, the song leak has not gone
down well with Wizkid’s new handlers at SONY Music.
Only
yesterday, an email from the International Federation of the
Phonographic Industry to take down
the song. The IFPI is a trade association of record companies in the US (of
which SONY Music is a part of).
The
mail reads in part: ‘We have learned that your service is making available,
distributing and/or referring/linking users to infringing copies of the
following sound recordings, the copyrights in which are exclusively owned or
controlled by one or more IFPI Represented Companies. We are asking for your
immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorised activity.’
Usually
leaked songs are regarded as theft by the owners of the copyrights and they
tend to be very unhappy about it, especially in countries like the USA where
intellectual copyright laws are very stringent.
For a
few years now, SONY has been the victim of malicious hacks, with a 2014 hack of
their email servers that revealed official correspondences, proprietary
information and employees’ Social Security numbers.
Wizkid's manager, Sunday Are, has also stated that Wizkid's camp has no idea how the song leaked online
Sources also say that the song is off Wizkid's next album
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