<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Steve Babaeko, the Chief
Executive Officer, X3M Ideas Limited, ;
has advocated the introduction of anti piracy subject into ; primary school curriculum as one of the ways
to completely exterminate the ; scourge
from the Nigerian system in few years. He made this submission at the September
25th breakfast meeting organized by the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce,
NACC, which held at Lagos Continental Hotel with a theme: <em>Promoting Creativity in the Contemporary Nigerian Talent Industry; the
Challenge of Sustainable Intellectual Property Protection.</em></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Piracy should be
introduced as a subject in primary school. This will help to build the spirit
of “let me buy the right one instead of pirated one” into the teens generation,
a development that would naturally make pirated works unattractive to consumers
in the years ahead, Babaeko , who was among the panel discussants, suggested. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He added that there is an
urgent need for more protection of creative efforts in music, software,
broadcasting, craft, architecture, film etc.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Over the years, the
creative industry has been subjected to unwholesome abuse, resulting into loss
of millions of dollars. Regrettably, the protection of intellectual property in
the creative enclave has been a herculean task to successive governments and
its regulatory agencies.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lamenting the development,
John Asein, Director General of the Nigerian Copyright Commission, NCC, who was
the guest speaker at the event, ; ;
explained that “to grow the industry, the agency’s biggest challenge is
awareness and education. We have been conferred with the power of police to
arrest but how do we enforce arrest without uniform and gun? We have the power
but no muscle. This is a problem.” As a remedy, Babaeko admonished NCC to
collaborate with advertising agencies for sustainable public sensitization of
the menace.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Earlier, in his remarks, Ikenna Nwosu, NACC board member and chairman, Government and International Liaison Committee, stated that there is no better time than now to discuss piracy. He called on all the stakeholders to collaborate in the pursuit of lasting solution to copy right abuse which has defiled all remedies in the last 30 years.</p>

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