Heavy Gbege has landed on Wazobia FM as Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Wazobia owners, Globe Broadcasting and Communications Ltd.

The suit number FHC/L/C69S/598/12 filed at the Federal High Court, Lagos on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, has COSON asking for a whooping sum of over N1billion for what they tagged unpaid royalties and damages against Wazobia FM and its owners for ‘the unauthorized copying, broadcast and infringement of the copyright in the musical works and sound recordings belonging to COSON members, affiliates and assignors’.

O Boy Yeah! Which songs be that sef? One Billion Naira na garden-egg?

COSON Chairman, Tony Okoroji said ‘It’s a new day for the creative industry in Nigeria. Those who have followed this process will vouch that we have been patient with broadcast stations and commercial users of music in Nigeria. We have not been rash. We have pleaded with them… we have appealed and sought compromise on every front. Some users have sincerely engaged with COSON and we have resolved their copyright issues professionally. Some others have treated us with contempt and disdain and behaved as if Nigeria is a nation without laws and all music found in Nigeria is theirs to use as they wish’.

Chief Operating Officer of Wazobia FM, Evita Moussalli, she says; ’We have already engaged our lawyers and as the matter is in court I choose not to comment’.

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