Copyright Act
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(d) the reproduction and distribution of copies of any artistic work permanently situated in a place
where it can be viewed by the public;
(e) the incidental inclusion of an artistic work in a film or broadcast;
(f) the inclusion in a collection of literary or musical work which includes not more than two
excerpts from the work, if the collection bears a statement that it is designed for educational use and
includes an acknowledgement of the title and authorship of the work;
(g) the broadcasting of a work if the broadcast is approved by the broadcasting authority as an
educational broadcast;
(h) any use made of a work in an approved educational institution for the educational purposes of
that institution, subject to the condition that, if a reproduction is made for any such purpose it shall be
destroyed before the end of the prescribed period, or if there is no prescribed period, before the end
of the period of twelve months after it was made;
(i) subject to the Third Schedule to this Act, the making of a sound recording of a Literary and
musical work, and the reproduction of such a Sound recording by the maker or under licence from
him, where the copies thereof are intended for retail sale in Nigeria and the work has already been
previously recorded under licence from the owner of the relevant part of the copyright whether in
Nigeria or abroad, subject to such conditions and to the payment of such compensation as may be
prescribed;
(j) the reading or recitation in public or in a broadcast by any person of any reasonable extract from
a published literary work if accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement: Provided that such
reading or recitation is not for commercial purposes;
(k) any use made of a work by or under the direction or control of the Government, or by such public
libraries, non-commercial documentation centres and scientific or other institutions as may be
prescribed, where the use is in public interest, no revenue is derived therefrom and no admission fee
is charged for the communication, if any, to the public of the work so used;
(l) the reproduction of a work by or under the direction or control of broadcasting authority where
the reproduction of any copies thereof are intended exclusively for a lawful broadcast and are
destroyed before the end of the period of six months immediately following the making of the
reproduction or such longer period as may be agreed between the broadcasting authority and the
owner of the relevant part of the copyright in the work, so however that any reproduction of a work
made under this paragraph-
(i) may if it is an exceptional documentary character be preserved in
the archives of the broadcasting authority (which shall for the purpose
of this paragraph be deemed to be part of the National Archives)
established under the Public Archives Act
(ii) subject to this Act, shall not be used for broadcasting or for any
other purpose without the consent of the owner of the relevant part of
the copyright in the work;
(m) the broadcasting of a work already lawfully made accessible to the public and subject (without
prejudice to the other provisions of this Schedule) to the condition that the owner of the broadcasting
right in the work shall receive a fair compensation determined, in the absence of agreement, by the
court;
(n) news of the day publicly broadcast or publicly communicated by any other means;
(o) the communication to the public of a work, in a place where no admission fee is charged in
respect of the communication , by any club whose aim in not profit making;
(p) any use made of a work for the purpose of judicial proceeding or of any report of any such
proceeding;
(q) the making of not more than three copies of a book(including a pamphlet, sheet, or music, map,
chart or plan) by or under the direction of the person in charge of a public library if such a book is
not available for sale in Nigeria;
(r) the reproduction for the purpose or research or private study of an unpublished literary or
musical work kept in a library, museum or other institutions to which the public has access;
(s) reproduction of published work in Braille for exclusive use of the blind, and sound recordings
made by institutions or other establishment approved by the Government for the promotion of the
welfare of other disabled persons for the exclusive use of such blind or disabled persons.
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