Infringement of broadcasts is often treated as a crime. The Nigerian Constitution guarantees that no-one can be prosecuted for any act that is not prescribed in a written law. Section 20 of Nigeria's Copyright Act only criminalizes dealing with infringing copies. A “copy” is defined in terms of material form. An infringing broadcast therefore connotes a recorded broadcast or a copy of a broadcast. This article argues that, statutorily, not every act that gives rise to civil liability for broadcast copyright infringement constitutes a crime. The article reviews the first broadcast copyright prosecution Court of Appeal decision in Eno v Nigerian Copyright Commission. Eno was unlawfully prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned. The article seeks to stem the wave of prosecutions on the type of charges used in Eno. In the absence of law reform, the prosecutions based on the line of charges in Eno constitute a fracturing of constitutional rights.

侵犯广播通常被视为犯罪。尼日利亚宪法保证，任何人都不会因成文法未规定的任何行为而受到起诉。尼日利亚《版权法》第20条仅将处理侵权复制品定为犯罪。“副本”是根据材料形式定义的。因此，侵权广播表示录制的广播或广播的副本。本文认为，从法律上讲，并非所有因广播版权侵权引起民事责任的行为都构成犯罪。本文回顾了Eno诉尼日利亚版权委员会在第一部广播版权起诉上诉法院的裁决。Eno被非法起诉，定罪并入狱。这篇文章试图遏制起诉浪潮中使用的指控类型。伊诺。在没有法律改革的情况下，基于埃诺指控行事的起诉构成了宪法权利的裂痕。