After years of court battle between Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) and Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN), the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, in April 2017 directed NCC to approve MCSN as a […]
By Chiamaka Anyanwu A couple of months ago, Nneoma Anosike, a Nigerian International Model and 2013 winner of the Elite Model Look, instituted an action, against Wema Bank Plc., a Nigerian Commercial Bank, for passing […]
A Federal High Court judge, Justice I.E. Ekwo sitting in Calabar, on Thursday, March 16, 2017, reportedly admonished the Cross River State Carnival Commission, the Governor of Cross River State, and the Attorney-General of the state […]
Can a copyright suit successfully lie in all cases of publication of an author’s work without authorization? The answer seems to depend on many factors. In the United States of America, for example, political speeches […]
Not many Nigerians are aware that there is body licensed by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Nigerian Copyright Commission to take care of the rights of authors, photographers, computer programmers, columnists, brand designers, […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar on Friday, January 27, 2017, fixed trial for three consecutive days in the ‘Calabar Carnival Copyright Case’. Trial is scheduled to take place between February 15 and 17, […]
July 9, 2014 — On July 25, the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) will formally launch a new online registration system named the Nigerian Copyright e-Registration System (NCeRS). NCeRS seeks to improve on the existing optional […]
November 3, 2013 — Very often, you read posts where writers, with the best of intentions, give credit to Google Images as the source of the images they use in their post with the words […]