Membership Registration

Join MCSN

Take the first step towards protecting your music rights and earning royalties. Register with the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria (MCSN) and submit your works – we’ll handle the rest.

Free and open to: Songwriters, Composers, Performers, Producers, Arrangers, Music Publishers, Record Labels, and other Right owners.

Online Registration

Complete your membership registration quickly and easily online. Click the "Sign up online" button to begin.

Offline Registration

Download and complete our PDF signup form, then: Email it to members@mcsnnigeria.org to conclude your registration.

Member Signup

New Member Registration Assistant

New/Update Profile?

Member Type:

Select 'CREATOR' if you are an Individual Composer, Author (Songwriter & Lyricist), Performer, or Arranger. Select 'BUSINESS' if you are a Publisher, Label, or Society.

Title:

First Name:

Middle Name:

Family Name:

Pseudonym / A.K.A:

Pseudonyms, stage names, or professional names: Any name that you, as an individual, might perform under.

Registered Trade Name:

Trading As / Pseudonyms:

CONTACT INFO

Enter in these fields the Member's Data: Home/ Premise address and communication informartion.

E-mail:

Enter correct Email address.

Address Line 1:

Post Code:

City/Town:

Country:

State / Province :

State:

1st Phone No:

Enter correct Mobile/Phone number.

2nd Phone:

Enter correct Mobile/Phone number.

Fax:

Webpage / Website:

DECLARATION

I hereby apply to be admitted as a member of MCSN in terms of its Memorandum of Incorporation (“the MOI”). If admitted, I agree to abide by the applicable terms of the MOI as amended from time to time; MCSN’s Policies, Rules and Regulations as well as written Terms and Conditions. I also hereby declare that the details contained in this Application Form are true and correct.

Member Status

Membership in Other Society

Are you or have you been a Member of any other collection Society in the World? E.g PRS, BMI, ASCAP.

List of Society

List the names of Collection Societies you are currently a Member of.

PERSONAL INFO

Enter here the Member's personal and professional information.

Musical Composition Category:

Select which applies if you own the rights of Musical Compositions.

Sound Recording Category:

Select which applies if you own the rights of Sound Recordings (recorded music or masters).

See Sample Passport below:

Upload Passport Sized Photograph (Image):

Please upload a clear, recent passport photo (35mm x 45mm, 73% head height, white background, high-quality). It should be useable for ID card.

Choose File

Date of Birth:

What date were you born?

Date of Death:

For deceased Members.

Nationality :

Which country do you have a legal status?

Place of Origin:

What place / part are you from originally? Where is your source?

Residence:

What country do you currently live?

Country of Birth:

What country were you born?

Place / State of Birth:

What state were you born?

Gender:

Male

Female

Other

Identification Type:

Upload Identification Card

Select and your upload your means of I.D e.g NIN, National ID, Voter's card, International passport, etc. (Jpg, Jpeg, Gif, Png).

Choose File

Identification Number

What is the unique number on your I.D or passport.

Band Name / Music Group Name:

Enter Band Name or name of Performing Group: If you perform with more than one group, please name all groups.

Position / Role in Group:

Business Information

Enter here the Member's Business and professional information.

Musical Composition Category:

Select which applies if you own the rights of Musical Compositions.

Sound Recording Category:

Select which applies if you own the rights of Sound Recordings (recorded music or masters).

Legal form:

Place of Business registration

Date of of Business registration

Registration / Incorporation Number (BN/RC)

Tax ID Number (TIN)

Upload Certificate of Incorporation or Registration

Choose File

Upload company's Status Report or MEMART or Partnership Deed

Choose File

CONTACT PERSON INFO

Enter in these fields the Business Contact Person Information.

Title

First Name

Middle Name

Last Name

Position Held / Role

Contact Person Email Address

Contact Person Telephone Number

Address

PAYMENT INFO

Enter in these fields the Member's Payee and Bank Information.

Bank Name:

Bank name e.g GTB, Zenith, etc.

Account Name:

Full name on account.

Account Number:

What's your bank account number?

NEXT OF KIN INFO

Enter in these fields the Member's Next of Kin Information.

Title

Relationship

First Name

Middle Name

Last Name

Contact Person Email Address

Contact Person Telephone Number

Address

Enter address of your next of Kin.

DEED OF ASSIGNMENT

OPERATIVE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD

BY THIS DEED OF ASSIGNMENT MADE

On this day of

Select today's date.

BETWEEN

Name (as per ID or Certificate of registration) of Applicant/Member.

Name

Enter applicant's name.

(hereinafter referred to as the ASSIGNOR)

AND

MUSICAL COPYRIGHT SOCIETY OF NIGERIA (MCSN)

whose registered office is situated at 6, Olaribiro street, Off Allen Avenue Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.

(hereinafter referred to as the ORGANISATION)

THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

Read, agree, and tick below;

1. In this Deed:- the expression "performance" shall mean (a) dramatic performance (which includes dance and mime), (b) Musical performance as defined under section 23 of the Copyright Act, whether now existing or hereafter made, eligible for protection under the Copyright Act.

2. The Assignor hereby assigns to MCSN ALL the under-mentioned rights in performances which now belong to, or shall hereafter be performed by or produced by the Assignor during the continuance of the Assignor's membership of MCSN, and all such parts or shares (whether limited as to time, place, mode of enjoyment or otherwise) of, and all such interests in, any such rights as so belong to or shall so be acquired by or be or become vested in the Assignor (all which rights hereby assigned or expressed or intended to be assigned are hereinafter collectively referred to as "the rights assigned"). TO HOLD the same unto MCSN for its exclusive benefit during such time as the right assigned continue to subsist and (in accordance with the provisions of the Articles of Association of MCSN for the time being in force) remain vested in or controlled by MCSN. The rights assigned to MCSN by this deed are; All Performing Rights, Communication to the public, Recording and reproduction in any material form, including but not limited to synchronization rights, adaptation rights, and Broadcasting for all parts of the world.

3. MCSN hereby covenants with the Assignor that MCSN shall from time to time pay to the Assignor such sums of money out of the monies collected by MCSN in respect of the exercise of the rights assigned to MCSN in the performances of its members as the Assignor shall be entitled to receive in accordance with the Rules of MCSN for the time being in force.

4. The Assignor doth hereby covenants with MCSN that the Assignor has good right and full power to assign the rights assigned in manner aforesaid to MCSN, hereby warrants that the performances in respect of which the rights assigned are hereby assigned or purported to be assigned do not or will not as the case may be infringe the copyrights in any other work, and that the Assignor will at all times hereafter keep MCSN harmless and indemnified against all loss, damage, costs, charge and expenses which MCSN may suffer or incur in respect of any claims which may be made upon or against MCSN in respect of any claims which may be made upon or against MCSN in respect of or as a result of any exercise by MCSN of any of the rights which are hereby assigned or purported to be assigned, and that the Assignor shall and will so long as the Assignor shall continue to be a member or affiliate of MCSN do, execute, and make all such acts, deeds, powers of attorney, assignments to or vesting in MCSN or enabling MCSN to enforce the rights assigned or any part thereof as MCSN may from time to time reasonably require.

Signature (Image)

Append your signature on a plain paper, then upload the image.

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Offline Registration

New Member Registration Assistant

CONTACT INFO

DECLARATION

PERSONAL INFO

Business Information

CONTACT PERSON INFO

PAYMENT INFO

NEXT OF KIN INFO

DEED OF ASSIGNMENT

MUSICAL COPYRIGHT SOCIETY OF NIGERIA (MCSN)

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