‘No Music Day’ holds September 1

Plans have been concluded by stakeholders in the Nigerian music industry to prevail on the authorities to tackle the widespread infringement on the rights of song writers, composers, performers, music publishers, record labels and other stakeholders in the industry.

The plans  are part of the major activities making this year’s No Music Day on September 1.

With the theme: Music for National Stability, the celebration is aimed at building significant public awareness and support for the new national fight against piracy of music, movies, literature, broadcast content, software, etc, which is undermining investments in the Nigerian creative industry.

Speaking on the event, renowned Intellectual Property activist and Chairman, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), Chief Tony Okoroji said: “Every year, in marking No Music Day, our objective has been to engage the Nigerian people and the various governments on the potential contributions of Nigerian music to the socio-economic development of the Nigerian nation and the necessity to fully deploy the substantial comparative advantage which our nation possesses in this area, so as to provide hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs to the teeming masses of Nigerian youth who parade the streets of our country with little hope.

“I have no doubt that if the right environment is created in Nigeria, the enormous creative energy exhibited by our young people will be released to the amazement of the world.”

R learnt that broadcast stations across Nigeria have been requested not to broadcast music between the hours of 8am and 10am on Friday, September 1, 2017 as a mark of solidarity with the nation’s creative industry whose potential has been limited by massive copyright infringement.