SS scooped that the planned battle is not unconnected with series of fruitless meetings, which had been held behind closed doors to find possible ways to get radio and television stations to pay royalties within the shortest time possible or explain how such huge amount of money is being managed amongst the Nigerian regulatory bodies. Moreover, the controversial former president of PMAN and top executive of MCSN, Charly Boy, had been unmasked as the leader of the picketing of defaulted broadcast stations that will begin from next week. Recall that the Tony Okoroji led Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), a faction of CMO, issued a directive that no station should play Nigerian music without paying for the rights.
As trouble looms, Charly Boy’s previous face-off with the Nigerian Breweries, N.T.A., and Multi-choice among many other corporate bodies for alleged rights infringements, and which had since opened up a better deal between corporate bodies and Nigerian artistes, is said to have disconcerted owners and managers of the accused electronic broadcast stations.
Charly boy in a telephone chat with SS, said: “Nigerian artistes deserve to have a share of what they laboured for. They need to benefit from the proceeds generated from their sweat and we cannot fold our arms to the detriment of Nigerian artistes, while radio and TV stations swell and smile to banks. I’m the chief enforcer of this present approach and with the support of those who understand what I’m saying, artistes will smile again. All we want is accountability and compliance, simple. We are ready to address the matter in whichever way they want, even if it means employing the gutter tactics, we will.”
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