Edamisan Job
Aknockout punch it may not be, but the 8 June judgment of the Port Harcourt Division of the Federal High qualifies as major blow on broadcast signal piracy and other strains of intellectual property theft in Nigeria.
For long, broadcast signal pirates, with no little chutzpah, have run rings around content creators and rights holders. But on 8 June, they had the stuffing knocked out of them when the Federal High Court delivered judgment that will have significant impact on intellectual property rights in the country.
The judgment, in my view, represents a chance to loosen the chokehold of piracy on the content economy, thereby engendering a healthier creative ecosystem as obtainable in progressive societies around the world.