Is there any legislation in this country against piracy?

busygirl:

Nollywood is not doomed . . .They're so clever that they now have nollywood channel in the u.k. it's a 24- hr movie channel that cost £5.99 per month. Nollywood being one of the biggest movie industry in africa has loads of african fans. . .imagine more than half of the africans in u.k subscribing and calculate the amount of pounds they're making. . . . .This have therefore covered their losses.

blacklion:

no be only for naija wey piracy dey - i suspect that nollywood channel in london is a huge piracy scam. its doubtful if they are paying royalties to the producers and artistes in naija

combrazor:

the only thing i might disagree with is the fact that Nollywood is driven of selling discs, not *movies* - the producer/marketer wants to sell as many discs as possible, and putting 16 movies on a single disc works against that goal. so it's still a bit dodgy to me.

i don't know.

modupe2:

u people have said it all. But to me, it will not really affect their buinesses. It will only affect the rental services business, which they all kick against. Because people will prefer to buy 16 movies for N300 than renting 1 for N 50.

It is known as the copyright law. Unfortunately, laws don't enforce themselves.

my dear, if you actually believe that even a penny of the revenue brought in by this so-called "Nollywood channel" goes back to Nollywood, i have a tower in Paris i am interested in selling to you!

totally agree with Combrazor. Absolutely! There is no basis for direct comparison. Most foreign film followers I know rarely get interested in our local home videos because of the lack of content appeal. I buy mostly Yoruba films and even though I pay more for them, it has never bothered me. I also noticed that Nigerians who follow this home videos don't have any complains about their price in comparison with the foreigh DVDs that are available everywhere.

It depends on where your interest is. many people still watch nollywood 24/7 without a single foreign movie. their fans will continue to patronise them even if the price is higher

VeritasInV:


In all honesty why would any one want to watch Nigerian films?!?!?!?!?!

Most of the films i have seen are shoddy of very poor quality and the actors seem to be of a lower educational ranking.
On top of which many of the ''films'' make light some of the serious issues facing this country. The touch lightly on the subjects of 419 bribbery and corruption but they do not portry an effective image of these things being wrong. Morally and legaly.

Many of the films i have seen are ridiculous and do not follow an even plot line jumping from scene to scene like a rabbit on drugs had been i charge of directing them.

Some and perhaps even a majority of the films i have seen are an abbomination to any film industry.

It some times brings a tear to my eye to think that someone actually thought about these films and decided to buy a $20 camera make them with people from the streets and decide its a good film.

There are many inferences to literacy and illiteracy in some of the films i have seen in which a charachter who has travelled ''abroad'' as it is said , returns to the village or town he is from where he begins to behave in a manner not befitting any normal person.

Boasting bragging spending volumes of tape speaking of things whch are imaginery or just made up.
The Character returns with an amount of money which when converted is a fortune here and begins to boast of owning companies and firm or being richer and having a lot more money. In thruth that is all he had after coming back ti Nigeria and spends it all trying to impress fare weather friends.

Many Nigerian films plain and simple may portray a certain aspect of life here but they mostly end up glamourizing many of the negative aspects of being Nigerian.

veritas i quite agree with you,most of the films i have also come across are quite poor but i do know for a fact that one or two home vidoes are relatively good.and i think u are aware of that because u said that most films are poor meaning that there must be a few that are ok or at least somewhat close to your esteemed standards.but instead of at least mentioning the few good ones you rather concentrated on the many bad ones.i agree that many naija films are quite poor but what i do appreciate is that this pooor films are creating jobs for people and not just any type of jobs ,but ok paying jobs,and not just ok paying jobs but ok paying jobs that people enjoying doing.you should come to unilag and see the number of young people enroling for creative arts (a course they enjoy)all thanks to our poor film industry.another fact about our poor film industry that gives me joy is the fact that we are telling our own stories no matter how poorly we are doing it,not only that nigerians like you and me are also buying this nonesense,so you could say that we are producing our own goods and actually consuming them which is the bed rock of any healthy economy.i could go on and on but i hope you see my point no matter how bleak.i strongly believe that we should seriously criticize the industry but not to kill it but rather to make it better.