The headquarters of Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) was very
busy this past week as the society played host to one of the gurus of copyright
collective management in the world, Mr. Robert Hooijer.
Mr. Hooijer, former Chief Executive Officer of South African Music
Rights Organization (SAMRO) and who until recently was the Acting CEO of the
Paris based International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers
(CISAC) was in Nigeria on a two day working visit to COSON.
Receiving Mr. Hooijer at the COSON office in Lagos, the COSON
Chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji, told the CISAC boss that COSON is proud to be an
important part of the great CISAC family represented in 121 countries of the
world and that COSON is determined to be a model Collective Management
Organization and that nothing is being spared to make COSON one of the most
effective CMOs in the African continent within the shortest possible time.
