The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has called on all stakeholders within the creative industry to always engage with the commission in order to keep it busy.
NCC’s Director General of the commission, Mr. John Asein made this appeal at a session with officials of Musical Copyright Society Nigeria (MCSN) Limited in Abuja recently.
During the visit to the commission, MCSN donated 20 pieces of HP laptops, an HP colour laser jet printer and a brand new Toyota Hiace bus to support the operations of the commission.
The director general used the occasion to request the stakeholders in the creative industry to keep the commission busy especially in the area of enforcement of their rights.
“For me, this event is a sign of a new dawn, it confirms what we can achieve if we work together to grow the creative industry; it means that the creative industry in return should be able to grow the nation’s economy.
“Here, we are strengthening the capacity of institutions, in this case, the Nigerian Copyright Commission. I will convey this to my own boss, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, that we found one stakeholder again that has come out to support the Commission.”
The Chief Executive of MCSN, Mr. Mayo Ayilaran said: “We do not think of what our government or nation can do for us, but we should rather be thinking of what we can do for our nation because when our nation is good we will be good and when our nation is better we too will be better.
“So, this informs our decision to take a cue from this popular saying and we took this little step; we call it very little because we know that the needs of the Commission is very huge, the commission that covers the whole country, this is a drop of water in the ocean.”
“It is our desire to do more but the present economic situation and level of our operations do not presently allow. But we want to say with emphasis that this is work in progress.”
