Looks like the fight for supremacy is closely coming to an end or it just might be a new beginning to another rift. COSON have been having it hot with BON and IBAN. So to prove who the father of entertainment is BON and IBAN showed COSON they are masters in all right by placing a ban on all artiste signed to COSON (from the look of things almost all the artistes are signed to COSON).
Two days ago BON and IBAN released an official statement that all media houses both TV and radio must with immediate effect stop playing their songs. The artistes include 2face Idibia, D'banj, Onyeka Onwenu, Iyanya, Banky W, Flavour, Ice Prince, Dr Sid, Olamide, 9ice, M.I, eLDee, Ruggedman, Wizkid, Asa, Waje, Omawumi,Weird Mc and many others.
The statement jointly signed & released by the President and Secretary of IBAN, Sonny Adun and Guy Murray Bruce in a quote from the statement reads thus: "No person or organisation, particularly a collection society such as COSON has a monopoly of authority over any other…IBAN and BON have the utmost respect for Nigerian artistes in their individual and collective capacities and have indeed contributed more than any known institution to the promotion of Nigerian music and the development of the entertainment industry as a whole."
Chairman of COSON, Tony Okoroji has laughed it off and said his foot and that of COSON is firmly placed on the ground to stand against any one who continues to play the songs of artistes without wanting to pay them their due royalties. Meanwhile PMAN has reacted accordingly via a released statement. Read below.... But if they now ban all this artiste please why are music channels and radio stations still playing them? Just asking. Find PMAN's statement here:.....
PMAN Speaks on the current ban of airplay of Nigerian artists by BON
& IBAN
The Performing Musicians Association of
Nigeria is appalled by the recent development spearheaded by the Broadcasting Organisation
of Nigeria (BON) and Independent
Broadcasters’ Association of Nigeria (IBAN)
via an official press release yesterday, calling for the immediate airplay ban on all media platforms
on content from Nigerian artistes, the association which was created with the
sole mission to PROTECT, PRESERVE, and PROMOTE Nigerian musicianshas decided to
react on the ban and on-going feud between the Broadcasting Organisation of
Nigeria(BON), Independent
Broadcasters’ Association of Nigeria (IBAN)
and Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON)
calling for an immediate reversal of the ban in the interest of these artistes
whom we know that all the above mentioned organisations have their best
interests at heart.
The ban on airplay of these Nigerian
artistes and their music on various Nigerian media platforms is from our
standpointvery unfair, demeaning and discouraging. Weall knowwithout a doubt that
these same artistes who have persevered and assisted us to build, today what is
known as the Nigerian music industry, Africa’s biggest entertainment export to
the world are the same people that are now being victimised. With this action,
the association foresees a situation
where this ban will, rather than encourage well meaning members of the society,
with musical talent to hone their craft and join the success story of the
entertainment industry, reverse will be the case. We also foresee a situation
where the bulk of the material that will be circulated on nigerian airwaves
will be foreign materials, celebrating alien artistes instead of embracing,
home grown talent and ourcultural heritage.
COSONin it’s own right by a mandate
given to the organisation acts as a collecting society for these artistes,
helping to monitor and collect royalties entitled to them. As a collecting
society, they have since inception acted as a shield to these artistes
protecting their intellectual rights. BON& IBAN are arguing that the tariffs and
standards presented to them by COSON
should be defended and agreeable with them, but we know that the ban is not the
best invitation to the negotiating table.
Article
3.13.2.2 of the Broadcast code issued by NBC
says: ‘For the purpose of free-to-air broadcast, Nigerian music shall
constitute 80 per cent of all music broadcast’. If this ban is sustained, and 80% of the
music played on the various media platforms are foreign material, we should ask
ourselves as guardians of the music industry, if these media houses are paying
the royalties owed to these foreign artistes, and thereby sidelining Nigerian
music by Nigerian artistes, are we supporting them or failing them?We should
also ask ourselves, ifthis ban which will invariably affect the rising profile
of the Nigerian music industry in the world, economically and in relevance is
good for us.
With these ongoing conflicts, lets not
forget the owners of this intellectual properties, the music owners, record
label owners, recording artistes, the instrumentalists, composers, who have
spent time and money producing and packaging, what we know, enjoy and call
music, their interests should be siginifcant in these agreements.
In light of all that has been mentioned above
we ask again that the ban be reversed and that all the affected parties and
major stakeholders in the entertainment industry sit down for a dialogue and
reach a favourable agreement, beneficial to everyone involved.
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