Copyright Law and the Promotion of Film Industry in Nigeria: A Critique

Abstract

Creativity requires ingenuity. Creativity is the art of putting into existence through imagination what has not been in existence. Bryan Garner defines creativity as "the degree to which a work displays imaginativeness beyond what a person of very ordinary talents might create1 " The art of creating is very difficult and tasking, but the creator becomes satisfied at the end of the creative process. Every work of creativity gladdens the creator. Artists and dramatists keep creating artistic works on daily bases, and are perpetually robbed of their intellectual products also on daily bases. This act of robbing another of his/her intellectual product or creativity is referred to as piracy. Therefore, there is need for creative artists to be aware of how to safeguard their intellectual products or creative works from being pirated.