Section 491 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria. Making or dealing in infringing copies of copyright work

Any person who knowingly‐

(a) makes for sale or hire any infringing copy of a work in which copyright subsists; or

(b) sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or hire any infringing copy of any such work; or

(c) distributes infringing copies of any such work either for the purposes of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright; or

(d) by way of trade exhibits in public any infringing copy of any such work,

is guilty of a simple offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding four naira for every copy dealt with in contravention of this section of this Code, but not exceeding one hundred naira in respect of the same transaction; or, on the case of a second or subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprisonment for two months.

Section 491 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria

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