COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF COPYRIGHT IN NIGERIA AND UNITED KINGDOM: THE LEGAL ISSUES AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

Over time, individuals and corporate bodies have hidden under the auspices of copyright exceptions, to escape copyright infringement and its liabilities. These privileges have been used outside the supposition for fraud and undue economic advantage against the interest of the owner. In the light of the aforesaid, copyright owners come to law with the expectation that the Law will order remedy for their losses or injuries only to be met with stiff resistance as certain defenses preclude them from the requisite remedies that ought to be available to them within the jurisdiction of the Nigeria’s legislation. On the other hand, it is different in other climes like the United Kingdom.