My Warnings Were Ignored By Linda Ikeji- Aye Dee, Man Behind Popular Blog’s Fall, Speaks
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We
reported yesterday about Linda Ikeji's issues with a blogger, Mr. Aye Dee and
Google, over copyright material, a case which made Goggle to shut down her
popular blog site.
Things
took an interesting
twist when the gossip blogger, Linda Ikeji, released personal
statement/ information about the man who made it possible for Googgle to shut
down her site.
The
man in the middle of the storm gave his own side of the story to Premium Times.
Read
excerpts below:
As
the initial shock over Google’s removal of popular news and entertainment site,
Linda Ikeji blog, begins to wane, one of those instrumental to the shutdown of
the site said Ms. Ikeji ignored his repeated complaints over copyright
infringement and plagiarism.
Mukhtar
Dan’Iyan, the Editor-in-Chief of US-based The 15 Past Eight Media Group, said
he merely spoke up after the blog used his tweets about developments in the war
against the Boko Haram insurgency without his permission.
“I
spoke up about the unauthorised use of my intellectual property that was taken
from my TL (time line),” Mr. Dan’Iyan, who tweets via @MrAyeDee, told PREMIUM
TIMES in an interview, Wednesday.
“(I)
filed a formal DMCA complaint to Google which hosted her site.
“One
complaint is not enough. But safe to assume when Google looked through other
examples of unauthorised IP usage and other IP owners filing complaints, it all
added up.
“I
emailed her (Linda Ikeji) repeatedly. And it was not the first time people had
plagiarised my content, but usually, I reach out and they take it down,” Mr.
Dan’Iyan added.
A
Digital Copyright Millenium Act, DMCA, is an avenue to report content that you
would like removed from Google’s services under applicable laws.
According
to Mr. Dan’Iyan, Ms. Ikeji had used over 10,000 copyrighted pictures and
stories over the past five years without the authorisation of the copyright
owners.
Google
took down the blog on Wednesday following multiple allegations of copyright
infringement.
Ms.
Ikeji did not respond to our enquiries Wednesday.
Mr.
Dan’Iyan’s accusations and subsequent threats of organising a class action
against the popular blogger drew the ire of the numerous fans who accused him
of envy and hate.
In
her response on Tuesday to the accusations, Ms. Ikeji dismissed the plagiarism
allegations and accused Mr. Dan’Iyan of using another name, Emmanuel Efremov,
to stalk her, as well as register almost ten of her domain names.
But
Mr. Dan’Iyan said Mr. Efremov is one of the directors in his company.
“15Past8.com
has owners like any other company. He’s one of them,” Mr. Dan’Iyan said.
“Emmanuel
(Efremov) has never tried to sell anything to Linda, nor has he ever demanded
any sort of money from her. In fact, I doubt he’s ever had any interaction with
here even in passing.”
Efforts
to reach Google on Wednesday were not successful.
While
the class action against Ms. Ikeji (whose blog is still ranked No. 10 on the
Alexa rankings of Top 500 sites in Nigeria) and Google is still gathering
momentums, Mr. Dan’Iyan said he had backed out.
“People
are sending stuff in, but hopefully, when she bounces back, as I know she will,
she will be the paragon of accountability when it comes to using material,” he
said.
“In
other words, she’ll only use that which she got permission for, this way
tempers would cool and lawsuit won’t proceed by aggrieved parties (of which I
am no longer one).
“Personally,
I want Linda to win and win big. Her story is a huge inspiration to many, and
should continue to be, as long as she does things the right way.”
Via
- Premium Times
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