COSON chairman speaks on Nigeria’s creative industry, ‘No Music Day’
Chairman of Copyright Society of Nigeria, Tony Okoroji will on September 1, 2022 speak on the state of Nigeria’s creative industry.
In a press statement on Thursday, Okoroji revealed that September 1 will be “No Music Day”.
The chairman according to the statement will deliver a national broadcast with the theme “Music in a society on the road to a socio-political revolution” that will dissect the potentials and predicaments of Nigeria’s creative industries and the key role that all creatives and professionals in Nigeria must urgently play to save the country from going down.
The broadcast will be from the COSON House in Ikeja at about 9.00 am and will be the highpoint of the 2022 “No Music Day”.
COSON has made arrangements to broadcast on major broadcast stations and streamed on several internet platforms around the world.
The statement reads: “While music will be the point of contact, the broadcast will deal with the violation of the rights of authors, publishers, actors, movie producers, photographers, architects, computer programmers, visual artists and designers of all types and indeed, the violation of the rights of all Nigerians and the dangerous damage this has done to the Nigerian nation. All Nigerian artistes, all those interested in the future of the Nigerian creative industries and all patriotic citizens have been invited to tune in and contribute to the discussions that follow on different platforms
“No Music Day” marked September 1 has its foundation in that historic week in 2009 when Nigerian artistes of different shades embarked on a weeklong hunger-strike staged in front of the National Theatre, Lagos. The hunger strike which was a result of the practitioner’s frustration with the devastating level of intellectual property banditry in Nigeria was the prelude to what has become known as ‘No Music Day’ in Nigeria.”
