A man who was originally sued by Prince’s estate is now suing them for allegedly ruining his reputation.
A year ago, Prince’s estate filed a federal lawsuit against a man named Kian Andrew Habib for posting five different videos of the late singer performing live on YouTube, according to The Blast. The songs that were mentioned in the lawsuit were “Nothing Compares 2 U,” “Take Me With U,” “Glam Slam,” “Sign o’ The Times,” “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World,” and “Hot Thing.” Afterwards, the estate issued a notice to YouTube to have the videos taken down, when Habib contested the removal the estate filed the lawsuit.
On July 2, Habib countersued the estate claiming he did nothing wrong. While Habib admitted that he uploaded the footage he denied making any profits, and says he did not participate in bootlegging, pirating or counterfeiting. Habib notes he only recorded short videos from the 2013 Prince concert he attended, adding that others were recording as well.
“Even if the Estate, had marketed or sought to market videos of the same concerts that are referenced in the Habib Videos,” he writes, “the allegation would still be demonstrably false because the Habib Videos are clearly of amateurish quality, containing scenes and sounds of other concertgoers, among other things, have poor audio and video quality, contain very small portions of concerts whose average total length was approximately three hours, and, otherwise have no commercial value whatsoever.”
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Habib believes the estate is only using this case to prevent others from sharing videos of Prince’s performances. In turn, he claims the estate has ruined his reputation with accusations. There are no details on what Habib wants for the alleged damages.
