Ownership And Author's Right:- Agbo, Amaoge D

ABSTRACT

The author and ownership as distinct concept under, the copyright law are veryimportant in exploiting the fruits in a work and laying claim to copyright protection.Ownership flows from authorship. The person who makes the work is normally the firstowner of the copyright in the work, provided that he has not created the work in the courseof employment, in which case his employer will be .the first owner of copyright. Theauthor having moral rights as owners of copyright posses the anomic right. Sometimes,the author of .work will also be the owner of the copyright in the-work. but this is not.always so, and many works separate author and owners as far as copyright is concerned.. e,fC0Pe °{fo*s paper is specifically on concept of ownershipCnnvriaht'r*?^ a/-"MCOme mPerat*ve for us to define the key concepts; (i)imdZJ’ H’11 Wner 111 Autllor and (iv) Right in this write-up for properunderstanding. r r r