ANCOP & UMFI Against Piracy

30^th June. 2011
at
Hotel Equatorial _Kampala, Uganda.

ANCOP [Association of Nollywood Core Producers] and UFMI [Uganda Federation of Movie Industry] together with the Uganda Film Publishers’ Guild partnered to grow and develop the movie industry in Uganda through fighting piracy and movie infringement on the Ugandan soil.

Such prior collaborations with ANCOP Ghana earned her International recognition in movie production on becoming the 4^th Leading Movie producer in Africa.

Nigeria produces over 2,000 films per year making Nollywood the largest movie producers in Africa 2^nd to Hollywood on international recognition. With the support of the government in enforcing the copyright law, Nollywood remits up to US$550 billion dollars as tax revenue to her Federal government of Nigeria.

The vice of MOVIE PIRACY is an immense curse/irritation to Uganda’s film industry which has big market potential and very good talents. According to the leader of the seven-man delegation, Mr. Alex Eyengho argued the government of Uganda through the Registrar of Copyright, Ministry of Justice, Police and Stakeholders to purse and prosecute pirates and all piracy facilitators.

Mr. Alex Eyengho assured that ALL Nigerian movie Producers through ANCOP have given UFMI [Uganda Federation of Movie Industry] ALL the power and authority [POWER OF ATTORNEY] to protect Nigerian Intellectual Property [Nigerian Movies] from any form of Infringement to crack down on all Nigerian Movie pirates in the Country effective from this 30^th of June 2011.

In the signing of a UFMI and ANCOP Reciprocal agreement that is the Memorandum of Understanding, ANCOP through UFMI also gave power to market, publish, reproduce and distribute Nigerian Movies; to Uganda Film Publishers’ Guild. ANCOP further handed genuine original master copies to the Publishers’ Guild and recognized them as the ONLY legitimate Nigeria Movie Publishers in Uganda.

Nigerian producers also pledged their unsparing support to the Ugandan movie producers as well as makers and encouraged the Ugandan government to invest in the multi million job creator that is; the movie industry which will shine as one of the biggest revenue providers to the economy as the case is today in Nigeria.

Follow the Link and Watch the Conference Videos;
1. The Signing of the Reciprocal Agreement
2. Key Note Address by some of the Special Guests
3. Hottest Questions Against the Conference

For more information about the ANCOP and UFMI Reciprocal Agreement, read the ANCOP on line publication with Vanguard publications

There is also alot more in the
Nigerian On line publication about
ANCOP & UFMI Reciprocal Agreement

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