Reggaeton Vs Reggae With JR Watkis,JoAnn Squillace and Stephen Drummond

JoAnn Squillace and Stephen Drummond join WMV to
talk about a list of reggaeton songs that have been brought
into evidence to support the ongoing copyright infringement
case against several latin artists, producers, publishing
companies and record labels filed by Dancehall producer pioneers
Steely and Clevie.





Since this conversation over 1000 new songs were added to the
lawsuit. The tracks which are alleged to have infringed upon the
80s dancehall riddim “Fish Market” produced by the duo are
presented into evidence on the basis that they sample copies of
the composition or simply copied the composition without
permission.


Reggaeton King Daddy Yankee alone is accused of copying the Fish
Market composition on over 43 songs including his 41x Latin
Platinum hit Con Calma with Snow which interpolates Snow’s
dancehall hit Informa.


Brazilian singer Annita, who was just released from Warner Music
after she ranted on social media about wanting to leave the
label has 14 songs on the evidence list named Exhibit A.


So far 107 summonses have been served to defendants this year
alone as the trial is set to get under way but in a motion filed
on Friday attorneys Jean G. Vidal-Font and Bradley J. Mullins who
are reprenting latin superstar Juan Luis Morera Luna p/k/a
Wisin and Drake real name Aubrey Graham, applied to dismiss
requests for the artists to come to court to answer to the
infringements on the grounds that they were not served at their
right addresses.


Bad Bunny and Drake‘s MÍA which has 1.4 billion
YouTube views has been named as one of the songs that copied the
Fish Market riddim.





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