The President of Hotel Owners and Managers Association of Lagos (HOMAL), Chief S.O Alabi, has called on the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) to clean up the copyright collective management with respect to the music industry by using its massive enforcement machinery. Alabi made the call in Lagos recently, when HOMAL and the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria Ltd/Gte (MCSN) held a joint media briefing to announce concessionary rates and discounts extended to hoteliers by the copyright society to cushion the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is ravaging the entertainment and the hospitality sector of the economy. Only few years back NCC was all over MCSN for operating without approval. Ayilaran said, “the collateral effect of this shutdown was that music practitioners (performing musicians, DJs, professional dancers, dramatists, etc) were not able to ply their trades at the shutdown venues. The musicians’ union, which was represented by the second Vice President, Zacky Azzay, called on the Federal and Lagos State governments to extend palliatives to members of the union “because things are tough for them.”

Source: The Guardian March 14, 2021 04:33 UTC