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28 June 2021CopyrightInês Monteiro Alves

2020: Nigeria’s progress on copyright reform

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic which effectively put much of life on hold, Nigeria enjoyed an extremely productive 2020 with respect to copyright law reforms and court decisions.

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