Tuesday, November 29, 2005

NCC declares MCSN illegal, nullifies Adewopo?s approval

NCC declares MCSN illegal, nullifies Adewopo?s approval
by OZULUA UHAKHEME and RICHARD EGHAGHE
Daily Independent [Nigeria], publication date: 25 November 2005
"The president may have acted swiftly to save the copyright community, to which he also belongs as an author, from further embarrassment in the confusion rocking copyright owners and users in the entertainment industry, over collective administration of royalties, following unhealthy rivalry between the registered Performing and Mechanical Rights Society of Nigeria (PMRS) and the now deregistered MCSN, which was purportedly approved few months ago. The president was also said to have acted in the spirit of his ongoing anti-corruption crusade in the country."

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