The Copyright Society
of Nigeria (COSON) has filed a law suit against popular digital pay television
station in Nigeria, StarTimes to court over issues related to payment of
royalties.
According to COSON boss, Tony Okoroji,
the operators of StarTimes have never paid any royalty for the use of
intellectual properties of COSON members on their platform.
StarTimes was established in
conjunction with NTA to provide terrestrial wireless digital TV technology to
viewers in Nigeria.
In a suit filed at the Federal High
Court, Lagos, COSON seeks an order of interlocutory injunction restraining
NTA-Star TV Network Ltd, owners of Startimes, whether by itself or its
officials, privies, servants, agents or howsoever called from broadcasting,
rebroadcasting or communicating to the public on any channel on its platform
any musical work and/or sound recording belonging to COSON, its members or
affiliates pending the determination of the issues in Suit No. FHC/CS/1149/14.
But StarTimes ran to court to get an
order to stop COSON from further writing, threatening or obstructing the
Applicant’s business or demanding for royalties pending the determination of
the substantive suit.
In May 2014, COSON ended its war with
some owners of broadcasting stations in Nigeria after some of them asked its
members not to play songs of COSON members.
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