The newly licensed Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN), last has held its maiden board meeting.
According to sources, the meeting was attended by a United States-based legal practitioner and a member of the board, Ope Banwo, who was said to have flown into the country just to attend the meeting.
Banwo, who is the founder of Stingomania Records, informed that he was determined to attend the meeting because he wanted to be part of history, given the approval of MCSN by the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) to operate as a Collective Management Organisation (CMO) after 24 years of intense struggle.
Director General of MCSN Mayo Ayilaran is seen in a photograph with Banwo and Salman, a lawyer with Banwo’s chambers, brandishing the NCC’s certificate of approval.
Recall that recently, the Federal Government, through the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, directed the NCC to issue, with immediate effect, a license to the MCSN to operate as a collecting society for the purpose of the Copyright Act, a move that has been rejected by COSON as illegal.
Tony Okoroji, Chairman of Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), last week, dismissed the approval of MCSN as a joke.
