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On Saturday, May 20, 2017, all roads will lead to Ikeja, Lagos for the historic day in the annals of the Nigerian creative industry as Nigeria’s glitterati gather to commission the magnificent COSON House in the city. Painstaking arrangements are in top gear to ensure that the much anticipated event is memorable and hitch free.…

Copyright Infringement: No Safe Haven For Telcos—Okoroji

Chairman of Copyright Society of Nigeria, COSON, Tony Okoroji, has said that there will be no hiding place for telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria who do not respect the intellectual property rights of creative people whose works these companies exploit for profit. Speaking at the COSON Stakeholders’ Forum which took place in Ibadan on September…

COSON Calls For Day-Long Hunger Strike On ‘No Music Day’

Copyright Society of Nigeria, COSON, Nigeria’s sole approved collective management organization for musical works and sound recordings has called on its thousands of members across the country, other stakeholders in the music industry and lovers of music in Nigeria who are sympathetic to the plight of creative people ravaged by piracy and other forms of…

COSON Tacks FG On Showbiz Engagement

From every nook and cranny of the country, hundreds of gaily dressed members of Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), the nation’s sole approved Collective Management Organization for musical works and sound recordings, on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, stormed the Oramiyan Hall of Lagos Airport Hotel for the 6th Annual General Meeting of the society. Among…

COSON Lawyers Go After Royalty Defaulters

Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), the nation’s sole government approved collective management organization for musical works and sound recordings, is ready for an unprecedented show down in courts across Nigeria with copyright infringers and royalty defaulters. To ensure that the battle is fought with no holds bared, COSON is rapidly expanding and strengthening its legal…