LAGOS – A top Yoruba actor, Olaiya Igwe, on Monday said that excess production of movies was the major cause of piracy in the movie industry.
Igwe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that piracy emanated from the resultant effect of a situation where all kinds of movies were churned out almost on daily basis.
“In fact, the menace is just a secondary problem; the primary problem is the excess films in circulation.”
The thespian noted that movie viewers were usually circumspect in their choice of movies and usually picked the most affordable and accessible movies when buying.
“Now let’s look at it from this angle, you produce like 40 movies in a year, you now sell it for N200.
“The pirate guy will pick it, reproduce it and sell it for 100 naira.
“So tell me, which will the audience go for? It’s the one with lesser price that they will buy.
“Whose fault is it, you as the producer, you are the cause because you produced too many movies.”
According to Igwe, the number of movies produced in the industry must be minimised to reduce accessibility to pirated movies.
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“What we need to do is how we can minimise the number of works we put into the market, from there, we now device a means of putting a good structure to protect our artistic work,’’ Igwe said. (NAN)
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