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A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has put an end to Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON)’s “General Distribution” practice. General Distribution, as was COSON’s practice, involved in principle the distribution of the same amount of music royalties (usuallyabout Thirty Thousand Naira) to each of the thousands of members of the organization yearly. This was
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By Benjamin Njoku Thousands of musicians across the country would heave a sigh of relief as the Copyright Society of Nigeria, COSON, on Tuesday, started disbursing the sum of N50 million to them to cushion the adverse effects of the ongoing coronavirus lockdown on them. According to the collective management organization, the distribution is in
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By Benjamin Njoku Copyright Society of Nigeria, COSON, has approached the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, to seek damages of N8 billion from the Nigerian Copyright Commission, NCC, for “the undemocratic and unlawful ‘suspension’ of the approval and operating licence of the collecting society. COSON is also seeking another N2 billion “for its
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By Benjamin Njoku Copyright Society of Nigeria, COSON, has asked the Nigerian Copyright Commission, NCC, to apologize to thousands of its members, the entire Nigerian creative community and the international copyright family for the commission’s abuse of power. COSON has also demanded that NCC should make appropriate restitution to COSON for harassing, intimidating, maltreating and
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Thousands of members of Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) spread all over Nigeria mourn the passing on of one of Nigeria’s greatest musicians of all times, Dr Victor Abimbola Olaiya. Reacting to the news of the passage of the great highlife superstar, singer and trumpeter, COSON Chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji who spoke from COSON House
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The COSON Board of Directors, Efe Omorogbe, Sikiru Agboola, Obi Asika, Dare Fasasi, Joel Ajayi, Audu Maikori, have declared its dissatisfaction with how the management of the royalty collection society have been spending the society’s funds.
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The COSON Board of Directors has declared the Emergency General Meeting of the society, slated for today, December 18, 2018, as illegal.
Read More In a bid to properly educate and enlighten the Nigerian populace and the entertainment industry in particular, the Growth and Empowerment Project,GEM, funded by the World Bank and domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, has entered into a new partnership with Copyright Society of Nigeria,COSON, Nigeria’s wave making collective management organization.
Read More The Music Publishers Association of Nigeria (MPAN) is an association of owners of interests in copyright catalogues comprised of tens of thousands of musical works, from the 1960s to 2018, locally and internationally.
Read More Following the termination of Copyright Society of Nigeria, COSON’s licence to operate as a collective management society by the regulatory body, Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), Ivory Music (formerly EMI Nigeria) has declared support for the intervention.
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