Copyright war: How federal high court sealed MCSN’s fate

COSON boss, Okoroji

Any hope of the unapproved Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN) that it will be allowed to operate legally in Nigeria as a copyright Collective Management Organization (CMO) has been buried by the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

In a landmark ruling by Hon Justice O.E. Abang on October 24, 2014, the court threw out the case filed by MCSN in which it had sought an order of the Federal High Court restraining Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) from parading itself as Nigeria’s sole collective management organization for musical works and sound recordings.