Copyright Act
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http://www.nigeria-law.org/CopyrightAct.htm
persons in Nigeria and owners of reproduction rights in the country of
the owner of the reproduction right;
(b) a licence granted under this paragraph shall not extend to the
export of copies of the reproduction of the work outside Nigeria and
every copy is available for distribution only in Nigeria.
(5) No licence shall be granted to an applicant under this paragraph unless-
(a) the applicant has proved to the satisfaction of the Council that he
had requested and been denied authorisation by the owner of the
copyright in the work to reproduce and publish such work or that he
was, after due diligence on his part, unable to find such owner;
(b) Where the applicant was unable to find such owner of the
copyright, a copy of his request for such authorisation by registered
air-mail post to the publisher whose name appears on the work not
less than three months before the application for the licence;
(c) The applicant had informed any national or international centre
designated for this purpose by the government of the country in which
the publisher of the work to be reproduced is believed to have his
principal place of business;
(d) The Council is satisfied that the applicant is competent to
reproduce and publish an accurate reproduction of the work and
possesses the means to pay to the owner of the copyright the royalties
payable to him under this paragraph;
(e) The applicant undertakes to reproduce and publish the work at
such price as may be fixed by the Council, being a price reasonably
related to the price normally charged in Nigeria for works of the same
standard on the same or similar subject
(f) A period of six months in the case of an application for the
reproduction and publication of any work of natural science, physical
science, mathematics or technology, or a period of three months in the
case of an application for the reproduction and publication of any
other work, has lapsed from the date of making the request under
sub-paragraphs (5)(a) of this paragraph, or where a copy of the
request has been sent under sub-paragraph (5)(b) of the said
paragraph, from the date of sending a copy, and a reproduction of the
work has not been published by the owner of the copyright in the work
or any person authorised by him within the said period of six months
or three months, as the case may be;
(g) The name of the author and the title of the particular edition of the
work proposed to be reproduced are printed on all the copies of the
reproduction;
(h) The author has not withdrawn from circulation copies of the work;
and
(i) An opportunity of being heard is given, wherever practicable, to
the owner of the copyright in the work.
(6) No licence to reproduce and publish the translation of a work shall be granted under this
paragraph unless such translation has been published by the owner of the right of translation in a
language spoken in Nigeria.
(7) The provisions of this paragraph shall also apply to the reproduction and publication, or
translation into a language spoken in Nigeria, of any text incorporated in audio-visual fixations
prepared and published solely for the purposes of systematic instructional activities.
(8) For the purposes of this paragraph"relevant period" , in relation to any work, means a period of-
(a) seven years from the date of the first publication of that work,
where the application is for the reproduction and publication of any
work of, or relating to fiction, poetry, drama, music or art;
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