Register with CoSOn, Your anger outburst on social media may not be as effective as taking legal action- Aduke Gold advises Musicians

Aduke Gold Ajayi 'Nitori Ogo'

By Oluwatosin Oladipo

The legend of global hope builder through 'Nitori Ogo', Minstrel Aduke Gold Ajayi advises musicians to register their songs with copyright agency like COSON for effective legal action against intellectual property stealing instead of  the social media anger outburst.

What is Copyright?

 Copyright (or author's right) is a legal term used to describe the rights that creators have over their literary and artistic works. Works covered by copyright range from books, music, paintings, sculpture, and films, to computer programs, databases, advertisements, maps, and technical drawings.

Life span of copyright law in Nigeria?

Copyright in literary, musical, and artistic works (excluding photographs) lasts for seventy years from the end of the year in which the author dies, and where the author is a government or a body corporate, 70 years after the end of the year in which the work was first published.

Difference between trademark, patent and copyright?

Copyright protects original work, whereas a trademark protects items that distinguish or identify a particular business from another. Copyright is generated automatically upon the creation of original work, whereas a trademark is established through common use of a mark in the course of business.

A patent protects new inventions, processes, or scientific creations, a trademark protects brands, logos, and slogans, and a copyright protects original works of authorship.

How many types of copyright law are there?

There are two types of rights under copyright: economic rights, which allow the rights owner to derive financial reward from the use of their works by others; and. moral rights, which protect the non-economic interests of the author.

What is not protected by copyright?

Not Protected by Copyright: Titles, names, short phrases and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents.

Aduke Gold advice to Musician

Dear musicians. 

For the sake of sanity, I implore "us" to please, to register our songs with the copyright ©️, they are approachable e.g COSON.

Your anger outburst on social media may not be as effective as taking legal action, upon anyone who use your intellectual property.

It is not until when someone pick a gun on your head is when you call such person a murder, someone who pick your ideas to make wealth for themselves are also a serial killer. 

I repeat YOU DON'T HAVE THE IDEA OF THE SONG THAT WILL MAKE YOU IN YOUR LIFETIME, SOME ARTISTS HAVE MADE THIS MISTAKE,AND THEY ARE STILL LIVING IN THE REGRET,THE SONG THAT MAKE YOU, WILL BE YOUR STAGE NAME FOR LIFE e g Elijah "olorunosobe",.... Folake Umosen "kosobabiire" ....midnight crew "kosobabiire......" infinity"Olorioko"..... Adukegold "NITORI OGO "..e t.c

I GREW TO SEE MUSICIANS EATING THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABOUR, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS A TIME, WHERE SOME MUSIC "THIEVES" SHINE ON ANOTHER PERSON'S WORK,WITHOUT THE OWNER'S CONSENT. ITS JUST SO PAINFUL! THIS IS A TIME OF LIFE, THAT THE "COMPOSERS" ARE LIVING IN PENURY,WHILE THOSE WHO REFURBISH OTHER PEOPLE'S SONGS ARE FANTASTICALLY DOING WELL.

MONEY WILL COME, WHEN YOUR IDENTITY IS ESTABLISHED, THE BEGINNING IS ALWAYS ROUGH, 'ANU NI MOFE, NITORI OGO, TEMIDAYO', HAVE GIVEN ME AN IDENTITY,NOT MONEY. AM NOT YET RICH,BUT AM BLESSED,BECAUSE SO MUCH WITH UNIMAGINABLE TESTIMONIES AND TRIBUTES HAVE COME FROM THOSE SONGS. AND AM SO SURE ONE DAY, GOD WILL BLESS ME BEYOND WHAT I COULD EVER IMAGINE LAGBARA OLORUN.

 IT IS NOT ALL ALBUMS THAT WILL GIVE YOU MONEY,BUT WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR IDENTITY FOR THOSE SONGS, MERCY WILL SPEAK FOR THE REST.

You need to register your songs with the copyright commission first,you don't know the song,that will change your story,that alone is enough for you to act fast. 

Until we start to understand this, SOMEBODY GO DEY USE YOUR SONG DO WORLD TOUR,AND YOU GO DEY SELL PROVISION FOR ONE CONTAINER KIOSK CLAIMING"NA ME GET THE SONG".Aani sise felomiran sogo oooo.i come in senses.

YOU CAN KINDLY CONTACT MY BROTHER OGAYEMI,H  IS ONE OF THE AGENTS OF "COSON" 08028006065. He will help you and put you through on how to register your songs.

BEING SPIRITUAL DOESN'T MAKE YOU A FOOL, DON'T ALLOW THE WOLVES IN SHEEP CLOTHING TO DESTROY YOUR GOD GIVEN POTENTIALS.