Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), the nation’s sole
copyright collective management organization for musical
works and sound recordings, is set to make 2015 a critical
year in its evolution and growth. As a result, the organization
has spent much of the month of January scrutinizing and
reviewing its processes and redesigning its approaches going
forward.
Speaking on the society’s approach in 2015, COSON General
Manager, Mr. Chinedu Chukwuji said, “January has been a
month of management meetings and meetings at COSON.
There have been several meetings with our Legal team,
several with our Communications team and more meetings
with our Licensing team. We still have meetings with our
Finance and Administration teams. Each meeting has been a
strategy session chaired by our chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji.
The discussions have been intense. Some of the discussions
have sometimes continued far into the night. The chairman
has been emphatic about the level of results which would not
be acceptable to the members of the society in 2015.
We have strategized on ways to hit those results that will
make our members happy. The Chairman has also made it
clear that COSON must continue to operate at the cutting
edge of technology and the most modern management
principles and practices. As a result, all the departments
have been primed to ensure the wide collection of information
and statistics that would boost their databases as COSON will
not make decisions based on guess work”.
In May 2015, COSON will be celebrating the fifth anniversary
of its approval by the government of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria as the nation’s sole collective management
organization for musical works and sound recordings.