The author of a book about the late Afrobeat Nigerian superstar, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, sued the producers of the award-winning Broadway musical Fela! to stop performances, Monday, saying they stole his work and thought an offer of $4,000 was all he deserved for copying entire portions of his book into the play‘s script.
Lawyers for Charles Moore demanded in the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that the Broadway show, a production set to open next week in London and all other performances be blocked. The lawsuit also sought at least $5m in damages and a halt to all advertising, promotions and product sales resulting from the show, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
Moore is the author of Fela Fela: Cette Putain de Vie and the copyright owner of its English translation, Fela: This Bitch of a Life,” which, the lawsuit maintains, is the only authorised biography of composer, singer, musician and political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, who died in 1997 at age 58.
A spokesman for the show‘s producers, Richard Kornberg, said he was “really shocked at this turn of events” because Moore is on the show‘s website endorsing it and helping to publicise “how wonderful this production is.”
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