We recall that earlier in 2011, Multichoice filed a writ of summons in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/1091/11 against MCSN, praying the court to grant a perpetual injunction stopping MCSN from asking or demanding from Multichoice to obtain copyright licence for the broadcast and communication to the public of musical works on the radio and television channels operated and distributed by the media company within Nigeria ‘because MCSN was not licensed or approved by the Nigerian Copyright Commission as a collecting society’.
MCSN then filed a counterclaim of N5.2 billion for the infringement of its copyright by Multichoice Nigeria from 2006 till date. The copyright society argues that Section 52 and Section 3 of the Fifth Schedule of the Copyright Act 2004 duly recognizes and save the rights of MCSN which it has acquired under several contracts.
The trial is expected to come up on November 1, 2012.
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