The Emerging Digital Age and Its Legal Impacts on Copyright Protection in Nigeria: The Need to Strategize
The Emerging Digital Age and Its Legal Impacts on Copyright Protection in Nigeria: The Need to Strategize

Summary/Abstract: This work examined the legal impacts of the emerging digital age on copyright protection in Nigeria with a view to suggesting ways forward. A cursory look at the level of technological advancement will reveal that new technologies are pushing the older ones into extinction,which has been witnessed in every sphere of human endeavor. It is observed that unauthorized users areas sailing protected work with impunity, hence no corresponding legal sophistication to keep to the pace of the advancement in Nigeria. This work adopted a descriptive and analytical design of which reliance was placed on primary and secondary data. It has equally exposed the inadequacies of the extant copyright law in Nigeria with a view to determining if the present legal regime can effectively address the emerging issues accompanying the emerging digital age. It is revealed that the Nigerian government has refused to pay deserved attention to its creative industry which has adverse implication on the economy because aspiring creators will always look up to incentives.

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