NFVCB, NCC to partner against digital piracy, unlicensed streaming

By Benjamin Njoku

The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has opened talks with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to tackle the rising menace of integer piracy and the cognition of unlicensed streaming platforms successful Nigeria.

Speaking during a courtesy sojourn to the NCC office successful Abuja, the Executive Director/CEO of NFVCB, Dr. Shaibu Husseini, commended the Commission for its regulatory achievements successful Nigeria’s communications assemblage and stressed the urgent request for stronger collaboration betwixt the 2 agencies.

He noted that portion the NFVCB regulates films and video works done censorship, classification, and licensing, the accelerated enlargement of integer platforms has created caller threats to Nigeria’s originative economy.

“One of the astir disturbing trends contiguous is the piracy of Nigerian films connected encrypted platforms specified arsenic Telegram. This transgression enactment robs our stakeholders of their earnings, discourages prime contented creation, and undermines nationalist security,” Husseini said.

The NFVCB brag besides expressed interest that immoderate telecommunication operators present run streaming services without securing the required licenses for accumulation and organisation of films from the NFVCB. He stressed that specified practices exposure Nigerians to unclassified and unregulated contented with taste and information risks.

To code these issues, Dr. Husseini urged the NCC to collaborate with the Nigerian Copyright Commission, and the NFVCB to combat piracy connected encrypted platforms. He besides sought the assistance of the committee to petition telecom operators to get NFVCB’S organisation and accumulation licenses earlier streaming films.

Responding connected behalf of the NCC, the Executive Commissioner for Stakeholder Management, Barr. Rimini Makama, who represented the Executive Vice Chairman,welcomed the NFVCB delegation and assured them of NCC’s committedness to partnership. She revealed that some agencies would soon motion a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to fast-track interventions erstwhile infractions occur.

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