YouTube Pulls Down ‘ExQ and Tocky Vibes’ ‘Wakatemba’ Hit over Copyright Dispute

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By Kinyua Mwangi

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YouTube has pulled down ExQ and Tocky Vibes’ ‘Wakatemba’ hit following a copyright dispute between the two artistes.

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Reports on 263Chat indicate that ‘Wakatemba’ was an original creation by ExQ. He later featured Tocky Vies making it a collabo.

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The agreement before ‘Wakatemba’ was that ExQ would help Tocky Vibes work on his song which was in the works but this never happened, leading to the current dispute.

Tocky Vibes alleges that despite numerous attempts to have ExQ honor his word, he has een adamant forcing him to file a copyright breach with YouTube on their collabo.

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YouTube pulled down the song which had been posted on ExQ’s official channel. The two artistes are yet to resolve their standoff which may necessitate YouTube to take off the song completely from each of their platforms.

Since the pulling down of the song, music pirates have been having a field day in what experts say could the next scenario if both artistes fail to come to an agreement.

“YouTube does have a way to thwart this using their technology called Content ID. The copyright owner uses the tool to register their work, YouTube then creates an ID of the registered work in it’s database. It then trawls through YouTube looking for duplicates. It takes time for this to happen but eventual when a duplicate is discovered the copyright owner can just choose to monetise the video themself instead of having it taken down…This is a case of disputed copyright. Which probably means it might not be possible for either ExQ or Tocky Vibes to use Content ID which will mean the pirates having a field day,” an expert opined.