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Bureau Nigérien du Droit d'Auteur

Nigerien copyright collection society

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4998339 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bureau Nigérien du Droit d'Auteur (BNDA) is the Niger office that manages copyright under the technical supervision of the Ministry of Culture and under the financial supervision of the Ministry of Finance. The director is Ganda Tahirou.

It became a member of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers on October 15, 1997.

Editorial summary

“Bureau Nigérien du Droit d'Auteur” enters the record as nigerien copyright collection society. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bureau, Nigérien and Droit can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bureau, Nigérien and Droit.
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“Bureau Nigérien du Droit d'Auteur” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bureau, Nigérien and Droit provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4998339. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bureau Nigérien du Droit d'Auteur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.