Music Publishers Association of Nigeria petitions NCC over royalty allocations

The Music Publishers Association of Nigeria, (MPAN), through its Chairman, Olumide Mustapha has petitioned the Nigeria Copyright Commission over the state of the music publishing business in Nigeria, the Vanguard is reporting.

The petition was made during the inaugural town hall meeting of the association recently held in Lagos as the publishers sought ways to address the various challenges facing the industry.

The town hall has meeting has as its theme, The Music Publishing Business in Nigeria – Regulations, Challenges and the Future, with panellists who shed light on the topic.

It’s reported that the members of the panel agreed that the Copyright Society of Nigeria has not been transparent enough in some of its functions.

The MPAN chairman, Olumide Mustapha, revealed that four sections of petitions will be submitted at the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) office and these petitions were presented during the meeting and signed by those in attendance.

We presented four petitions to all the attendees and those petitions cover areas we’ll forward to the Copyright Commission. We are confident we’ll have a significant impact on the decision making of how to resolve this issue in the industry after meeting the commission,” he says.

Part of their petition is a request for the NCC to issue “a directive to all collating societies in the music industry to allocate no less than 60% of gross royalties collected per annum for specific distribution for a period of three years after which a further directive shall be passed limiting general distribution to a maximum of 10 per cent of gross royalties collected per annum.”

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