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A Unit­ed States-based record la­bel has threat­ened le­gal ac­tion against se­nior of­fi­cials of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), al­leg­ing the unau­tho­rised use of a copy­right­ed song in po­lit­i­cal cam­paign ma­te­r­i­al ahead of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

In a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter dat­ed Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 9, at­tor­neys Keron Ramkhal­whan and Lloyd Robin­son, act­ing for VAS Pro­duc­tions LLC, ac­cused PNM gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings and po­lit­i­cal leader of the To­ba­go Coun­cil of the PNM, An­cil Den­nis, of copy­right in­fringe­ment in re­la­tion to the song Liff Up.

VAS Pro­duc­tions LLC, based in At­lanta, Geor­gia, de­scribed it­self in the let­ter as a record la­bel and pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny spe­cial­is­ing in ur­ban and Caribbean mu­sic. Ac­cord­ing to the cor­re­spon­dence, the com­pa­ny record­ed and pro­duced Liff Up, per­formed by T&T artiste Tyrell Swan, al­so known as Prince Swan­ny.