Ndaba threatens to sue for copyright violation
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
He says he does not know how his music landed in the hands of ebay.com and he is convinced he can successfully sue for millions of pounds for copyright violation. Ndaba has decided to print the web pages that contain all the information that ebay.com carried.
In one corner of the web page is Indaba's album picture, with the words, " CD of African music from Botswana jazz/fusion written on top. It was item number 260076307196. According to the information on the page, the album was located in Oxford, United Kingdom, but it could be shipped worldwide. It was going for US $ 15.
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