EXCLUSIVE: Iyabo Ojo, Omo Brish lock in bitter court war over movie ownership – Trust Africa News

Uk-movie producer, Tosin Abiola has dragged actress Iyabo Ojo and Ibaka Leisure Restricted to court docket for claiming sole possession of her film “Below the Carpet.”

Abiola, popularly referred to as Omo Brish dragged Ojo to the Federal Excessive Courtroom of Lagos in a go well with No: FHC/L/CS/2508/2023 searching for an injunction to cease her from streaming the film on IbakaTv App and Ibaka Television.com, which is meant to be at this time (8 December, 2023).

Within the go well with, Abiola is the Plaintiff/Applicant, whereas Ojo is the Defendant and 1st respondent and Ibaka Leisure Restricted, is the 2nd Respondent.

Courtroom paperwork seen by PM NEWS and Affidavit deposed to by Alfred Temitayo Ogunti of the Regulation agency of Habeeb Oredola and Associates confirmed that the plaintiff/applicant (Abiola) conceptualized the thought of financing a film to be produced in Nigeria and shared the thought with the first Defendant/Respondent (Ojo) after which the events agreed to the film “Below the Carpet’ with the association that the Applicant, because the creator and financier of the film, might be credited because the “Government Producer” whereas Ojo, who’s an Influencer within the film business in Nigeria might be named because the Producer of the film.

In keeping with court docket papers, to the chagrin of Abiola, Ojo, after the manufacturing of the film credited and represented herself because the Government Producer and the Producer of the film, thereby attributing the unique authorship, possession, and mental property rights within the film solely to herself opposite to the settlement between the events on co-ownership and attribution proper.

Moreover, it was alleged that Ojo with out the total consent of Abiola organized a premiere and subsequently launched the film to the cinemas. Neither was the applicant credited as Government Producer nor did the first Respondent render accounts of the income generated by the film on the field workplace to the applicant regardless of persistent calls for.

The Affidavit additionally confirmed that Ojo, with out the consent of Abiola and on the alleged deliberate misrepresentation that she is each the Government Producer and the Producer of the film, has entered into an settlement with the 2nd Defendant/Respondent (Ibaka Leisure Restricted) for the streaming of the film on the IbakaTv App and Ibaka Television.com that are streaming platforms owned by the 2nd Respondent, which is accessible to tens of millions of viewers in 220 nations world wide.

The streaming of the film on the 2nd Respondent’s platform is deliberate to begin on 8 December 2023.

Abiola contended that the show of the film by the 2nd Respondent on its streaming platform with out the authorization and/or correct credit score to the Applicant because the Government Producer of the film would event a worldwide derogatory impact and represent irreversible harm to her proper of attribution and extreme breach of her mental property rights.

Abiola argued that there’s an imminent threat that the applicant’s co-ownership proper will proceed to be completely exploited by the respondents with out the potential for an ample treatment in financial phrases.

In mild of the happenings, Abiola is searching for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining Ojo and Ibaka Leisure Restricted by themselves, their servants, brokers, privies, assigns or another particular person howsoever described from streaming and/or distributing the film titled “Below the Carpet” on the Ibaka TV app and Ibaka TV.com both instantly or not directly or on another on-line Platform pending the listening to and dedication of this go well with.

She additionally sought an order of interlocutory injunction restraining Ojo by herself, her brokers, privies, or another particular person howsoever described from promoting, selling, and/or performing acts calculated to advertise or symbolize her as the only proprietor of the copyright within the film tided “Below the Carpet”’ pending the listening to and dedication of this Swimsuit.

The Plaintiff additional sought an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the defendant/Respondent both by herself, brokers, employees, members, or privies howsoever named from interfering in any means howsoever with the subject material of this Swimsuit or in any respect, pending the listening to and dedication of this go well with.

As on the time of submitting this report, all efforts to get Miss Abiola to touch upon the matter didn’t yield outcomes as she declined to make feedback on the matter.