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Zimbabwean dancehall chanter Jah Signal woke up to shocking revelations that some of his songs were struck off from YouTube channel.This was after the Charambas and the Fishers of Men asked for the song to be pulled down from platform due to copyright infringement.
The two songs which were struck off are
“Shinga Muroora” and “Tengai Mafuta”.
In 2018 he released his song “Shinga Muroora” which was a rendition of the Charambas song “Kana vanhu vangu” which was released in 2001. The song was changed into a romantic words. The song had too many viewers. In September last year, Jah Signal released another song “Tengai Mafuta”, the song is a remix of as song by Mai Charamb
The statement reads, “Though we had been doing the clean up on our music for the past three years we had spared “Shinga Muroora” on the basis that it had made too many viewers. The further infringement of “Tengai Mafuta” prompted us to act on both songs and other “infringement songs” which had been spared for a long time”.
These days music is now a technological product and is being controlled and monitored by various software that scan various platforms. The abuses and copyright infringements are flagged and action is sometimes taken even without the awareness of the owner.
“We would urge fellow artists and music managers to always guard against copyright infringements, and seek and obtain consent to acknowledge copyrights. We have not been cruel to Jah Signal. We have been victim to copyright infringements”, said the statement.
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