NCC DG To Deliver Keynote Speech At BON’s Piracy Summit

The Director General of the Nigeria Copyright Commission,
Afam Ezekude, will deliver a keynote address with theme, “Piracy: Reality Check
and The Way Forward,” at the Talents Meet Class, a Best of Nollywood
initiative. The event holds Sunday, September 21st at the Rockview Hotel,
Apapa, Lagos.

A foremost intellectual copyright advocate, Ezekude said,
“While we celebrate the achievement of Nollywood, we must equally underscore
the need to ensure that the gains of this cultural revolution is sustained
through a system that acknowledges and rewards the creative inputs of
participants in the movie industry. This is because the various inputs are all
products of creative genius of people whose basic resource is their
intellectual abilities. The intellectual property system remains critical to
the development of the creative industries.”

Panelists at the TMC include veteran actor, Jide Kosoko;
President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima; filmmaker, Zik
Zulu Okafor and foremost Nollywood marketers, Aina Kusoro and Abdul Rasaq.
Celebrated Guardian newspaper film critic, Shuaibu Hussein, is the moderator.

According to Seun Oloketuyi, executive producer, Best of
Nollywood Awards, “The Talents Meet Class is a major component of our annual
awards ceremony where we provide a platform for the stars and stakeholders of
Nollywood to interact with the movers and shakers of Corporate Nigeria while
exploring areas of mutual interests between them.” He said further that this
year’s TMC is being hosted by the youthful chairman of Apapa Local Government
Area, Hon. Ayodeji Joseph; “We are delighted at the interest Hon. Joseph has
shown in Nollywood and it was in a bid to underscore this that he agreed to
host us.”