The Court of Appeal in Lagos has affirmed the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos, which awarded about N5.959 billion in favour of the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria against Multichoice Nigeria Limited as damages.
The trial justices agreed that the application of the respondent has merit and succeeds and varied the special damages awarded by the lower court to N5,450,152,125:00. He upheld claims by MSCN that it was the owner, assignee and exclusive licensee of body of some musical works over the Nigerian territory.
Multichoice sought an order of the appellate court setting aside the judgment of the lower court delivered by Justice Idris on January 19, 2018. In the appeal number CA/L/188/2018, heard March 12, 2020, Multichoice distilled nine issues for determination by the appellate court while the respondent, MCSN, distilled six issues..
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