Section 36 Copyright Act

Section 36 Copyright Act 2022 is about Infringement of copyright. It is under Part IV (Copyright Infringements) of the Act.

Copyright is infringed by any person who without the authorisation of the owner of the copyright —
(a) does or causes any person to do an act, which constitutes a violation of the exclusive rights conferred under this Act ;
(b) imports or causes to be imported into Nigeria any copy of a work which if it had been made in Nigeria would be an infringing copy under this Act ;

(c) sells, offers for sale or hire any work in respect of which copyright is infringed under paragraph (a) ;
(d) makes or has in his possession, plates, master tapes, machines, equipment or contrivances used for the sole purpose of making infringing copies of the work ;

(e) permits a place of public entertainment or of business to be used for a public performance of the work, where the performance constitutes an infringement of copyright in the work, unless the person permitting the place to be used was not aware and had no reasonable ground to suspect that the performance constitutes an infringement of the copyright ;
(f ) permits within its premises, the reproduction of a copyright work ; or
(g) performs or causes to be performed for the purposes of trade or business or the promotion of a trade or business, any work in which copyright subsists.

(2) The doing of any of the acts referred to in this section shall be in respect of the whole or a substantial part of the work either in its original form or in any form recognisably derived from the original.