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Awakening the Lion. the Case of The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Discovering the lion
The Solomon Linda story
A legal outline
Preparing for the lion
A new direction
The master plan
Developing a case
Mastering the plan
Bombshell forces a new direction
Plan B gets off the ground
The lion and the mouse
Fighting on two fronts
Finding a funder
The law of the jungle
Going head to head with Disney
The lion roars
The settlement
About the book
About the author
Tafelberg Short books
Imprint page
By Owen Dean
Tafelberg
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The article said it was grossly unfair that the original composer of the song and his family should have lived such impoverished lives while the song was a passport to riches for others, mainly the moguls of the music industry in the United States. The plight of the composer and his family was attributed at least in part to the Apartheid system and the second-class status suffered by black people in South Africa at the time.
Gallo, the initial usurper of the song from Solomon Linda, had given it a start along its successful road and participated in the benefits. In fact, Gallo was cast somewhat in the role of villain in what had befallen Solomon Linda and his family. And it wasn’t enjoying being portrayed in this light, particularly in the ‘new’ South Africa where it had become part of a corporate group with a strong black empowerment orientation. The purpose of that earlier visit of Geoff’s had been to commission me to investigate the legal situation surrounding the rights to the song, and to find out whether anything could be done to reinstate the claim of the Linda family to the song and improve their material lot.
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