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ABSTRACT
It is a known fact that the greatest heritage of a nation remains the creativity of its citizens, and therefore, one of the primary function of law enforcement agents and appropriate authorities is to protect the ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation of the citizenry. However, Nigeria has joined the league of nations that have enacted domestic legislation to protect the copyright of its citizens against undue infringement. The principal legislation in this regard is the Nigerian Copyright Act, which is hinged on the fact that any copyright infringement is stealing.
Notwithstanding the above, and especially the enormous benefits which the country has derived from copyright related products, Nigeria still remains the largest piracy destination and market in the world, invariably in the same products ostensibly protected by the copyright Act. This is due to a number of factors, essentially bordering on the inability of the Act to meet contemporary challenges in the protection of copyrights of particularly new genres of innovation. Also, although, Nigeria is a signatory to various international conventions on copyright protection, these conventions are hardly enforceable in Nigeria owing to the fact that they have not been domesticated.
