Mr. Mayo Ayilaran, the Director General of the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN), has declared that MCSN is for everybody stressing that all those that wronged the society for the past eight years it was in the wilderness following its ban by the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) in place of its rival, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), one or the other have been forgiven.
“Let all go and sin no more,” he said when some editorial staff of Newdawn, an online medium, led by Mr. Tunde Abatan paid him a courtesy call in his Ikeja office on Tuesday, February 5, 2019.
Ayilaran, however, maintained that what is rightly due to the organisation all the days of its struggles will be collected.
He said that the dream of every creative mind was to get reward from their intellectual endeavour and MCSN is open to everybody – musicians, literally artists and actors.
He hinted that MCSN would sooner or later promote authentic Nigerian music and culture through talent hunt and that the society tends to set ethnical standard to what people listen to.
He end his interaction with his guests by saying that the Supreme Court judgment of December15, 2018, has further legitimised the Society which people had earlier said cannot operate side by side with COSON as a CMO.
” My people know I was not comfortable even with the fact that NCC had granted us approval. My people know I was not comfortable but when the judgement came, they knew that my joy knew no bound,” he said. ” I want to see what those who are in court with us saying that we have no approval from NCC and recoginition from Supreme Court would say, now that that we have both.”
Earlier in his remarks, Mr. Abatan, had told him that the visit was to intimate him of the arrival of the news online.
He solicited for a symbiotic relationship between MCSN and Newdawn.
