The Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) has sued popular digital pay television station in Nigeria, StarTimes to court over royalties related issue.
Tony Okoroji, COSON’s President has disclosed in a statement that the operators of StarTimes have never paid any royalty for the use of intellectual properties of COSON members on their platform.
COSON, as a result has filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Lagos, seeking an order of interlocutory injunction stopping 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.
StarTimes in response has however approached the 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.
COSON is a single collective body in the country charged with the protection of intellectual properties. It had in 2013 gone into a legal battle against the Musial Copyright Society of Nigerian, MCSN, over monopolizing the copyright industry in the country.
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