Geistige Eigentumsrechte: Offener Zugang

Abstrakt

Contending Issues Relating to Copyright Ownership in Commissioned Works in Nigeria: A Case of Robbing Peter to Pay

Job O Odion

This article examined the conflict between the similar though not conterminous concepts of authorship and ownership of copyright works. This is done against the background that though it is assumed that authorship and ownership of copyright can exist in the same persons, in appropriate circumstances two different persons can lay claim separately to the authorship and ownership of copyright. Whereas it is presumed that the author of copyright is the owner of the right therein, there are also circumstances in which an author may be denied of his ownership of copyright therein. No other form of copyright incidence epitomizes this anomaly than the relationship between a commissioner of copyright work and the commissionee. This is the basis of our analysis.