Abstract This study examines the progress made by the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) in its duty to protect intellectual property and enforce copyright laws in Nigeria. The work also looks into the recent developments by the Commission toward improving the policy framework for the protection of intellectual property. This is particularly important as the Nigerian government is gradually coming to an awareness of the potentials of the creative and cultural industries. Using semi-structured interviews and the review of relevant texts, data (information) was gathered on the activities of the Copyright Commission to protect works covered by the Copyright Act, the plans of the NCC on improving and expanding on the delivery of its service and the challenges associated with the current intellectual property policy framework. The result reflects some aspects of the policy framework that need to be reviewed and the NCC's effort at improving in its duty of protecting intellectual property from theft and enforcing copyright laws. With regards to the findings, this work points out the need to extensively educate creative workers in Nigeria about intellectual property and copyright laws and the need to conclude the recent review of the existing laws to reflect changes that have occurred over time bearing in mind technological advancements.

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在尼日利亚保护知识产权：尼日利亚版权委员会活动回顾

摘要 本研究考察了尼日利亚版权委员会 (NCC) 在其在尼日利亚保护知识产权和执行版权法方面取得的进展。这项工作还研究了委员会最近在改进知识产权保护政策框架方面的进展。随着尼日利亚政府逐渐意识到创意和文化产业的潜力，这一点尤为重要。通过半结构化访谈和对相关文本的审查，收集了有关版权委员会为保护版权法所涵盖的作品而开展的活动的数据（信息）、NCC 改进和扩大其服务交付的计划以及与当前知识产权政策框架相关的挑战。结果反映了需要审查的政策框架的某些方面，以及 NCC 在改进其保护知识产权免遭盗窃和执行版权法的职责方面所做的努力。关于调查结果，这项工作指出需要对尼日利亚的创意工作者进行关于知识产权和版权法的广泛教育，并且需要总结最近对现有法律的审查，以反映随着时间的推移发生的变化，同时牢记技术进步.