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Title
NIGERIAN COPYRIGHT LAW: THE NEED FOR REFORM |
Full text
http://dspace.unijos.edu.ng/handle/10485/277 |
Date
2000 |
Author(s)
Funsho, Femi M. |
Abstract
Copyright is the creative arm of Intellectual Property Rights, the other being the industrial arm consisting of patents, labels, trade marks et cetera. Copyright itself entails other ancillary rights referred to as neighbouring rights because of their derivation horn the-rights created under copy right. This work will venture to tersely examine the concept of copyright, the nature of the Nigerian version of copyright legislations, the problems and prospects of its application, and the areas of necessary reformation. The dual philosophies upon which the notion of copyright subsists are what in intellectual property parlance are referred to as the private or economic benefit theory and the public benefit theory. The former holds that since the product of the creator which is the subject of copyright represents the result of the expenditure of time, labour and other resources personal to the creator, that he should therefore be allowed to derive benefits therefrom. The public benefit theory posits that although the product of a creator's efforts are his personal emanation, but that such are drawn from experience acquired from a social or cultural environment. And this being the case, that the public or members of that social environment are entitled to benefit from the products of the creator's efforts. It is in the light of the foregoing that the precept of copyright is moulded universally around the intermediation between facilitating the personal enjoyment by the creator or author of the products of his efforts and also to ensure that the public benefits from the work. |
Subject(s)
law |
Language
en |
Publisher
Matchers Publishing Ltd |
Relation
Vol. 4; 2000 |
Identifier
978 - 32783 - 2 - 0 |
Repository
Jos - University of Jos
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