NEW APPOINTMENTS AT COSON AS CMO TAKES COPYRIGHT COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT TO A NEW LEVEL

Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), the nation’s sole approved Collective Management Organisation for musical works and sound recordings, has announced new appointments as it positions itself to be Africa’s top CMO with a workforce that ensures the robust licensing of musical works and sound recordings and the effective collection of royalties on behalf of the organization’s members, assignors and affiliates.

COSON General Manager, Mr. Chinedu Chukwuji, announced the new appointments to the staff of COSON as Ms. Patience Adudu, Ms. Chiamaka Ezeonwuka, Mr. Olawale Oyesanya and Mr. Tolulope Balogun.

Ms. Patience Adudu is a graduate of Public Administration from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma while Ms. Chiamaka Ezeonwuka is a graduate of Mass Communications from Babcock University; Mr. Olawale Oyesanya is a graduate of Business Administration from the University of Lagos and an Associate Member of the Institute of Strategic Management of Nigeria (ISMN). Ms. Adudu, Ms. Ezeonwuka and Mr. Oyesanya have been deployed to the Licensing Department.

The other recent appointee at COSON is Mr. Tolulope Balogun, a graduate of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, and an ALISON trained Communications and New Media Strategist. Tolu, as he is well known, takes over as Senior Executive, New Media from Ms. Mayree Uket who recently left the service of COSON.

Mr. Chukwuji said that the new appointments are in line with COSON’s mission of establishing its roots as a world class collective management organization that exceeds stakeholder’s expectations with strong commitment to prudent and efficient management of resources and delivering the highest level of service.

The COSON GM went on to say “At COSON, we are committed to ensuring that music pays! These new members of staff are not only qualified and committed to the COSON vision, before deploying them, we have given them the best training that money can buy. To ensure that they do not lack the skills to deliver at the topmost level, COSON has brought some of the best brains in Intellectual Property to Nigeria to work them through the complexities of music copyright and empower them to produce results.

He concluded by saying, “My belief is that a well trained work force is a huge advantage to the entire system. For us, it is part of our drive to hire only the best, train and re-train our staff most especially in this area where knowledge keeps developing, information keeps changing and we want to be at the top of things and not be caught napping. For us, if at the end of the day we can be at the cutting edge of happenings in intellectual property, then we’ve done our job. If we can reach our users in the language that they understand and at the end of the day, improve our collections by covering more grounds and paying more royalties to our members, assignors and affiliates, then we can say yes, we are doing the right thing. I am in no doubt that this is a step in the right direction.’’

COSON director and Nigerian singer, Mrs. Azeezat Allen, said that it was a pointer to the fact that COSON was growing even bigger. The Queen of Love further stated that COSON was proud to be associated with the growth and respect for intellectual property in the country.

She continued, “At COSON, we will keep expanding, we will keep covering more grounds. Just look at clapng.com, the first music copyright licensing platform in Nigeria, offering users of music in a commercial or public place such as hotels, organizers of road shows, owners of salons, owners of restaurants, malls, event centres, transporters and similar establishments, the opportunity to get licensed from the comfort of their offices and businesses. That’s what we do at COSON: we go the extra mile in ensuring right holders get rewarded for their efforts’’.

Photo Caption

(L – R) Tolu Balogun, Chiamaka Ezeonwuka, Olawale Oyesanya, and Patience Adudu.

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