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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12 , 2004           NCC collaborates with customs on trans-border piracy The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), has initiated a collaborative pact with the Nigeria Customs Service to end trans-border activities of pirates. NCC Director General Adebambo Adewopo told a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum at the weekend in Abuja that the commission had already established hotlines and copyright desks at the country's land borders, sea and airports. He said that the commission had also initiated a training programme for customs men that would expose and equip them on how to checkmate the activities of pirates at the borders. ``As part of the first phase of the collaborative efforts with customs, we have to train customs men in the area of intellectual property and copyright materials so that they can know what to look out for,'' he said. He said that the commission needed the collaboration and support of the security and enforcement outfits to fight the scourge called global piracy. He said that global piracy had destroyed the economy of many nations and also deprived intellectual resource owners of their means of livelihood. ``In fact piracy is worst than banditry in the sense that it deals with intellectual property,'' he said. He said that the threat posed by piracy to both individuals and the nation required networking and collaboration of all relevant agencies such as the police, customs, NAFDAC to implement the commission's mandate. He said that piracy in the country had over the years become a systematically organised industry, which, he said, required cooperation and systematic strategies to wipe out. Adewopo urged stakeholders in the publishing, music and film industries to organise themselves properly to enable them wage a successful war against the scourge as well as reap the benefits of their intellectual property. ``If the stakeholders are able to organise themselves it makes the job of regulating the industry very easy and effective,'' he said.   SITE TOOLS Print This Page   EMAIL THIS PAGE Friend's Name: Friend's  Email: Your Name: Your Email:           � Triumph Publishing Company Limited 2004

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