Bank in Trouble for Format Theft
Sony Pictures and its local affiliates plan to sue a leading ECOWAS bank operating in Nigeria for plagiarizing its TV show format.
A senior employee working in the Corporate Communications department of a leading ECOWAS bank with Headquarters in Lome seems to have offhandedly initiated a proposal that could end up costing the bank a huge deal. It seems the bank is about to slug it out with one of the worlds leading media companies with a turnover of more than USD40 Billion per annum – Sony Pictures.
Formerly a UBA employee, the executive in question has been said to have effortlessly lured the Producers of a licensed Television franchise which was at the time being pitched to UBA to terminate talks with the Africa’s Global Bank (while still an employee there) and allow for her to take the format with her to new employers at this large ECOWAS bank with its Nigerian headquarters in Victoria Island.
Further to unsuccessfully convincing the Producers, she embarked up a self-seeking mission to copy the idea and rename the show that now has something to do with ENTRPRENUERSHIP. Having self-commissioned this copied format for her new bank as senior brand executive, she forged on and got her superiors to put up money for the project.
Now the issue here is that Sony Pictures, who were initially anxious about entering the Nigeria TV terrain and Africa’s Global bank, who the lady-in-question formerly worked for, and the production company -the Producers of the original TV show (Dragons’ Den Nigeria) have now caught wind of the unscrupulous act and are now preparing to sue the bank for both devising and consenting to such a deceitful action, thus allowing the theft of intellectual property to proceed under its sponsorship and banner.
Sony Pictures have frantically sent down their representatives to Nigeria to look in these matters and have insisted that they intend to do all it takes to protect their intellectual property as these remain the currency of trade in the media world. Sony Pictures we gather would also go to the extent of severing ties with any television network affiliate of the show.
What this translates to is that any TV station involved in broadcasting the show would be blacklisted from accessing any content from Sony’s worldwide catalogue which includes blockbuster films, and primetime TV shows.
Meanwhile we hear the matter is being referred to the Nigerian Copyright Council and to the FRAPA –the world intellectual property copyright agency.
When contacted, the licensors of the show whose copyright has been infringed on expressed their distaste regarding the ongoing issue.
Source: http://www.jamesamuta.com/
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See y'all later.
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