Nigerian Copyright Commission

It was elevated to the status of a commission in April 1996 and this administrative change was confirmed by the Copyright (Amendment) Decree 1999.

Its statutory authority includes: The Commission is also charged with the following statutory responsibilities under the Copyright Act: The Commission is supervised by a Governing Board established under section 35 of the Act and constituted as follows: The representatives of the Ministries are required to be officers not below the rank of director and the board is at liberty to adopt its own rules of procedure and method of operation.

Any person who violates these provision will be investigated by operatives of the Commission called Copyright Inspectors.

Copyright owners provide relevant information on piracy activities in the industry which help the Commission to identify and investigate suspected pirates.

In year 2012, the Commission carried out a public burning of seven hundred and twenty two million (722,000,000) units of seized pirated copyright works and contrivances estimated at six billion, five hundred million Naira(N6,500,000,000), comprising literary, musical, film works and contrivances, including those from the broadcast industries.

In addition, ten million and fifty thousand (10,050,000) assorted confiscated pirated copyright works and contrivances seized from Kaduna State, Kano State and environs, with an estimated market value of one billion four hundred million Naira (N1, 400,000,000) were publicly destroyed by burning in Kaduna on 22 October 2015.

they manage the media and all other publications including online resources This department is responsible for handling all issues of planning, research and statistics as the name implies.

The Commission's head office is located at the Federal Secretariat Phase 1, Annex 2, Ground Floor, Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District, Abuja, Nigeria.