Anti-Piracy Campaign: NCC Clamps Down on Bookshops, Seizes Pirated Books in Ibadan
In a bid to rid off the practice of book piracy and intellectual theft in the society, the Nigerian Copyright Commission has sealed some bookshop caught with pirated books on their shelves in Ibadan metropolis.
At an anti piracy mobilization awareness campaign in Ibadan led by State Coordinator, Nigerian Copyright Commission, NCC, Ibadan, Mrs Oluropo Oke, huge numbers of pirated books were also seized from the erring book booksellers.
The team accompanied by some Publishers, Authors, NCC staff and men of the Nigerian Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, visited some bookshops located at the entrance of the university of Ibadan, Dugbe, Iwo road and Gbagi, all in Ibadan metropolis and sensitised booksellers on the need to join hands with the commission to fight the menace of book piracy in nigeria
The State Coordinator, NCC, Ibadan,Mrs Oluropo Oke, called on young authors and upcoming artiste not to be discouraged by the alarming rate piracy in the country assuring them that the battle would be won.
Mrs Oke said the act of intellectual property theft not only rob the authors, writers , musicians, actors and publishers their royalties, but the economy of the country is being largely affected by this nefarious act, because the economy would be largely affected when the share of the government did not get to the coffers of the government.
The NCC state Coordinator noted that commission would not relent in the fight against piracy, reiterating that stiffer penalties await intellectual property thieves.
