They are perhaps the most surprised. The carnival number ‘Dikke Pens’ from CV De Klekotte Stachels and René van Rooij, which won the Kies Kraker election from Omroep Brabant at the beginning of this year, suddenly is on Spotify again after two months of absence. “People react intensely happy!” Why the number can be heard again is a mystery for the time being.
In mid -March the success number, a parody of the hit ‘Take A Chance On Me‘From ABBA, suddenly from the streaming service. The request to remove the number turned out to come from Sweden, the land of ABBA. Jop Roeland of the carnival band reacted surprised at the time. “We have done everything neatly according to the rules. We are also not out of money at all.”
The band then contacted lawyers and consulted with Universal, the record company that includes ABBA. That consultation is still ongoing. That is why Jop is surprised that ‘thick tripe’ is now on Spotify.
“We didn’t put anything on it,” Jop emphasized on Monday morning in the radio program Keeigoeiemorgen on Omroep Brabant. “So two things can be going on. Or Universal has done and thinks: Let It Go. Or the number can be off again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I really don’t know, I don’t dare put my hand in the fire. “
According to him, people respond intensely to the return. “Jeej, he’s back!”. Friends, acquaintances, but also other people on social media … We get hearts and thumbs and see that people immediately put it online again. It all feels very euphoric, but I especially hope that everything stays that way. ”
The band is now, together with the lawyer, finding out what exactly happened. Connoisseurs in the field of copyright indicated in March that you cannot just make a number on the existing melody of another artist. According to the Copyright Act, a composer may prohibit a cover if the person believes that the good name of the maker is being affected or that the number is unnecessarily mutilated.
“But we explained Universal that we have made a parody, not a cover of ‘Take A Chance On Me ‘“, Jop emphasizes.” That is just allowed, we are in our right. We tried to explain that. “