CAMILLE McEACH­NIE

So­ca artiste Machel Mon­tana's lawyer, J. Lar­ry Williams, says Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots' po­lit­i­cal leader, Wat­son Duke, has used the song “Buss Head”, with­out per­mis­sion.

The song was writ­ten by Mon­tano and the Bun­ji Gar­lin.

Duke played the song on Thurs­day (Au­gust 20) morn­ing dur­ing a live Face­book post, say­ing he was mere­ly re­peat­ing the song's lyrics when he de­scribed two To­ba­go women as "stink and dirty" on the hus­tings for the 2020 gen­er­al elec­tion.

How­ev­er, on Au­gust 21, Machel's lawyer said Duke "mis­ap­pro­pri­at­ed" the song and was nev­er au­tho­rized to use it.

"Mr Duke has not sought nor got­ten ap­proval for the use of the mu­sic or lyrics to the said song," the lawyer wrote.

He added: "The use of his song is there­fore unau­tho­rized. He has used the song and lyrics out of its orig­i­nal con­text to suit his own ne­far­i­ous pur­pos­es,” the lawyer said.

The let­ter al­so goes on to state: “Fur­ther­more, Machel dis­tance(s) him­self from state­ments made by Mr. Duke."

The let­ter warns: "The con­tin­ued unau­tho­rized use of same(song) will re­sult in ac­tion tak­en against Mr. Duke."