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    COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AS IT RELEATES TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY: IMPLICATIONS FOR NIGERIA
    (DEPARTMENT OF PRIVATE AND BUSINESS LAW FACULTY OF LAW NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI NIGERIA, 2019-09-26) Abdulazeez, Kehinde Oniyangi
    Copyright under the laws in Nigeria is an area of law that has not yet been fully explored by authors and the society at large. This is not because the law is not known, but because people are so reluctant to deal with the law and also the awareness has not much been canvassed. Copyright is facing a legion of problems in Nigeria and these problems are causing losses of income to authors, actors, publishers etc. An owner of copyright has the exclusive right to do certain acts in relation to the work and the copyright is infringed when someone else deals with the work without the consent of the owner. In this work, we will be looking at the meaning, nature and scope of copyright, what constitute an infringement of copyright, the remedies available to an aggrieved person whose copyright is infringed and the recommendation on how best to reduce the infringement of copyright. An infringement is defined as the unauthorized making, using, selling, importing or otherwise any product or process of an author or a creator of an idea by way of piracy and counterfeiting. The problem of copyright infringement lias always been one of the more difficult issues to solve in our society. The copyright law has been evolving throughout the years and is yet to successfully adapted to the new technologies that have appeared, which has created easy avenues for infringement of copyrighted works and with the internet the battle for the protection of copyrighted works seems to be lost, since it allows the access to enormous quality of information any time, any place without any constraints. The internet has often been referred to as one large copying machine that can distribute an unlimited number of copies of content worldwide