EMEKA MBA TO DELIVER THE 2019 COSON LECTURE
Mr. Emeka Mba, former Director-General of the National Film
& Video Censors Board and former Director-General of the National
Broadcasting Commission will deliver the 2019 COSON Lecture, one of the key
events of the biennial COSON Week which will hold on Saturday, December 7, 2019
at the COSON House Arena in Ikeja.
Emeka Mba who currently heads Questech Media, a specialized
media & entertainment consulting practice, has more than 27 years’ experience in the
converged fields of media, entertainment and technology, as well as regulatory
policy management. He is considered by many of his peers as a leading visionary
and thinker on the role of government policy and technology in shaping the
trajectory and growth of the sector, and its impact on social and economic
development.
Mr. Mba was Managing Director of
Phillips Media Entertainment Ltd, a specialized media entertainment consulting
service of Phillips Consulting Nigeria, and was for eight and a half years,
Regulatory Affairs Manager for MultiChoice Nigeria, responsible for Regulatory
strategy and Policy.
In 2014, Emeka Mba as DG of the
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) played a historic role in the
development of collective management of copyright in Nigeria by brokering peace
between COSON and the Nigerian broadcasting industry which led to the agreement
for the payment of copyright royalties by all broadcasting stations in the
country.
Speaking on the choice of Mr. Mba
for the 2019 COSON Lecture, COSON Chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji, said, “No one
in Nigeria has the depth of hands-on experience that Mr. Emeka Mba has with
respect to creative content and the management of rights. He is brilliant. I am
looking forward to a very exciting 2019 COSON Lecture”
The inaugural COSON lecture in
2013 was delivered by Prof Helge Ronning, Chairman, Norwegian Copyright
Development Association (NORCODE) with His Excellency, Mr. Rolf Ree, Norwegian
Ambassador to Nigeria as Guest of Honour. The 2015 COSON Lecture was delivered
by Prof. Bankole Sodipo with His Excellency, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Vice
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Guest of Honour and legal
luminary, Prince Bola Ajibola, as Special Guest. The last COSON Lecture in 2017
was delivered by the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama,
one-time Deputy Director-General of the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO). Chairman of the lecture was the nation’s guru of
Intellectual property law, Prof Egerton Uvieghara.
With the quality of the minds
that have consistently gathered at each of the lectures, the COSON Lecture
series has easily become Nigeria’s most sought after event for the discussion
of creativity, content and developments in intellectual property across the
globe.
