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Court orders NUC, Airtel to pay media outfit N703m for copyright infringement
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Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, in Wednesday ordered the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Zain Nigeria...

Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, in Wednesday ordered the National Universities Commission and Zain Nigeria Ltd to pay N703 million in damages to a media company, TV Xtra Production for copyright infringement.

However,Ogodo, was surprised to see the programme being aired on televisions by NUC and Zain four weeks after he made the presentation to the NUC. “The law is that a work in Nigeria is the exclusive right of the owner to control the reproduction of the work in any material form and making adaptations of the work going by Section 6 and 8 of the Copyright Act.

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