The carnival number Dikke Pens has not been found since March on streaming service Spotify. CV de Breakte Stoves, the makers of the hit and winners of Kies Klaker in March, are now ‘crazy’ and want to tighten a lawsuit against ABBA. The problem is that such a soil procedure costs 25,000 euros. The artists from Oss do not have that and that is why they started a collection campaign on Saturday evening.
The song, which just had one million streams, was removed by the record label of the iconic pop group ABBA. CV de Breakte Stoves has based the song on the melody of ‘Take A Chance On Me’, a world hit by the Swedish group.
But the men disagree. “We have put a lot of time in investigations whether the melody is indeed too much like ABBA’s original song,” says Jop Roeland of the carnival group. “Together with lawyer Victor Den Hollander we have selected everything and it appears that it is just the way we did it.”
“We don’t leave it at that.”
The men think it was enough and want to contract a lawsuit against the Swedish pop group. “Our season starts again”, Jop continues. “We constantly sent e-mails to ABBA, but we don’t hear anything. We don’t leave it at that.”
But that joke costs 25,000 euros. “We want to get it together for the eleventh of the eleventh. Otherwise the case will not come. We hope for support from all Brabant people, because here the song has grown up. We now have to explain to people every day why the song no longer finds on Spotify.” Jop has a nice prospect for generous givers. “The one who donates the most will get a private performance from us.”
“If we win, we are heroes and otherwise we will go under fighting.”
He realizes that a collection campaign and lawsuit will not become a simple job. “I have no idea if we will get it together at first. And then it is we as a small band against a large record label. If we win we are heroes and otherwise we will be fighting,” says Jop fighting lust.
Look here for CV De Breakte Stoves when they choose your squatter with ‘Dikke Pens’:
Connoisseurs in the field of copyright know that you cannot just make a number on an existing melody from 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.
It is possible that an artist is informed if a number one million streams has achieved on Spotify. Then they can judge it. Big Pens (Clap Your Pens) had just achieved one million streams a day before the offline was taken.
“The most important thing is that ‘thick tripe’ comes back to Spotify.”
The collection campaign started at seven in the evening. ABBA has not yet responded. “We just want thick tripe to come back to Spotify, that’s the most important thing,” Jop closes. On Saturday evening around nine o’clock the counter for the carnival band was already 1000 euros.
With the song, CV De Klekotte Stachels and singer René van Rooij won the prestigious choose you Kraker election from Omroep Brabant. The song can no longer be heard since March via Spotify and Apple Music, but is still on YouTube.