The Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) has sued 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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