Award winning actor and politician, Richard Mofe Damijo, has
asked that incoming president, Muhammadu Buhari, should set up a special tribunal to
handle cases of piracy in the Nollywood industry.
The
actor made this known at the first screening of his latest movie 'Oloibiri' at Silverbird Cinemas, Abuja.
According
to Damijo, it will spell out the punishment or compensation for any pirated
work of art. He stated that offenders should be prosecuted and made to pay for
the damages caused.
“existing laws are
good but what is needed to add is maybe setting up special tribunal to handle
cases of piracy and step up the punishment or compensation for piracy because
right now it is too low and insignificant." - RMD said.
“The body of the law
is okay, the problem is in the policing and making sure that offenders are
prosecuted when they are found guilty they pay damages.” -
“Though, my work is
not to protect the movie from being pirated, somebody has that job. The
regulator should ensure that all creative works of Nollywood are protected and
we earn money from it.
I am not going to
stand here to legislate on the kind of movie film makers will do, I am just
privileged to be part of the one that is topical now; just to entertain people
and make them think as a people and amount of work that could be done." - He
added.
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