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Nigeria: Obtain MCSN licence or face five-year jail term, NCC warns Deejays

Nigeria: Obtain MCSN licence or face five-year jail term, NCC warns Deejays

Africa Links 24 with Rotimi Ige
Published on 2025-06-05 17:56:21

The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has advised all Disc Jockeys (Deejays) who publicly perform music to obtain a licence from the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria Ltd/Gte (MCSN), the only Collective Management Organisation (CMO) for music in Nigeria, or risk imprisonment for five years.

In a copyright advisory recently released by the regulator, the NCC warned all Deejays who perform or communicate music to the public to obtain a licence from rights holders or their approved…

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