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[FILES] The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) officially launching the Digital Switch Over (DSO) in Lagos State, to transit from analogue to digital transmission and increase television penetration. PHOTO: TwitterA knockout punch it may not be, but the June 8, 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 June 8, they had the stuffing knocked out of them when the Federal High Court delivered a judgment that will have a significant impact on intellectual property rights in the country.
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.
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• As 23,000 persons suffer respiratory related ailment in five years
Following recent increase in activities of illegal refiners and bunkerers, there is fear in Rivers State that this may cause a surge of deadly black soot in the atmosphere. A reviewed report of a technical team set up by the Rivers State government and headed by the state’s former Commissioner for Environment, Prof. Roseline Konya, revealed that about 22,077 persons have suffered from respiratory related ailments in the last five years.
The team, made up 20 experts from various inter-disciplinary and relevant fields, including a consultant physician and dermatologist at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Dr. Dasetima Altraide, had conducted investigative studies into the airborne particulate (soot) in Port Harcourt and the report stated that illegal bunkering and gas flaring are two major sources of soot in the state.