The concept of “work for hire” has gained widespread recognition across many jurisdictions and has increasingly been adopted in structuring deals within Nigerian industries, particularly in the entertainment sector. “Work for hire” operates in a way that in the eyes of the law the real creator never existed in the eye of the law and the person or company commissioning the work owns it as if they had created it themselves. In this article, probing through the lens of the Nigerian Copyright Act 2022, the author examines the applicability of the ‘work for hire’ concept in Nigerian jurisprudence.
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