The legal team of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), has vowed to deal decisively with copyright infringers and royalty defaulters.
Officers of COSON and the body’s consultants have been collecting detailed information in different parts of the country with respect to every organization which continues to deploy music without any copyright license or the payment of music copyright royalties.
Meetings have also been held with different teams of Intellectual Property lawyers at the society’s headquarters in Lagos, in Abuja and at several other locations in the country targeted for the legal onslaught. The list of those to face COSON’s legal fire has been drawn and the strategies to take each of them on, has been mapped out, the management of COSON says.
On the planned legal action, COSON Chairman, Tony Okoroji said; “We have no choice. We are fighting this war with every arsenal we can muster. We are deploying every resource at our disposal. We intend to win this war once and for all and change the intellectual property landscape in Nigeria. For all the defaulting broadcasting stations, we have notified the Broadcasting Organizations of Nigeria (BON), the Independent Broadcasting Association of Nigeria (IBAN) and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). We have also informed the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC).”
