Jay-Z vs L'Vovo Derrango

Ofcourse these pics look almost identical with slight differences of that being the other is South African L'Vovo Derrango and the other being hip-hop mogul Jay-Z.
I found myself in a concersation with friends about these CD covers with friends over drinks in a restaurant and some interesting points came up.
Sure the guy did copy the heavy weight's cover and even got into trouble with Jay-Z's Universal Reocrds local distrubutors who ordered him to sack the cover or risk the chance of being sued.

REMEMBER this article:
Kwaito heavyweight L’Vovo Derrango, real name Thokozani Ndlovu, has been dealt a heavy blow for trying to be a carbon copy of US rap heavyweight Jay-Z.

According to Sunday World reports, L’Vovo’s new album The Heavyweight will be pulled from the shelves because he copied the artistic work of Jay-Z’s American Gangster on the sleeve of his album.

The decision to yank the muso’s album was sparked by a complaint sent to his record label EMI/CCP by Jay-Z’s local record label Universal Music’s local division.

According to information received, Universal Music wrote an e-mail to EMI/CCP saying L’Vovo’s sleeve resembles that of Jay-Z.

In this I sat to think why on earth they would worry about a SAn releasing something of this nature, I mean we have seen people sampling songs at a fee, but copying a picture and being sued for that I think is rather petty and unnecessary. I mean Derrango could just have been a fan of jay-Z?

What then? Do we sue all local models for posing with a pout or posing like Marlyn manroe in her famous white dress potrit?

This to me is something that was so unnecessary and personally think they must just let Derrango be, he is a fan and mybe Jay-Z is his Idol.


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