Vol. 11(5), pp. 215 --221 July, 2023. 

ISSN: 2360-7858

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijalis2023220

 

Full Length Research

 

Abstract

This study investigated the availability of copyright law compliance policy in university libraries in South-East, Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to find out existing copyright law compliance policies being put in place for copyrighted works in the university libraries. The study adopted the descriptive survey design and the population of the study comprised all the 227 librarians in the 10 federal and state university libraries in South-East, Nigeria. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire adapted from the Copyright Act provisions. Data collected were analysed using simple percentages and mean for the research questions while Chi-Square was used to test the null hypothesis. The study revealed that 55.98 percent of the university libraries in South-East, Nigeria agreed that their libraries have policy on the copyright law compliance. The null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance showed that copyright law compliance policies in the libraries differ significantly from federal and state owned universities; thereby the null hypotheses were rejected. The study concludes therefore that on the average, there is copyright law compliance policy in university libraries in university libraries in South-East, Nigeria. The study strongly recommends that the university libraries should engage a copyright expert/librarian who will provide copyright guidance based on the Copyright Act 2004 in order to improve.

 

Keywords: Copyright law, Compliance, Policy, South East Nigeria, University Libraries

 

	Cite This Article As: ECHEDOM, A.U., NWORIE, H.O.(2023). Availability of Copyright Law Compliance Policy in University Libraries in South-East, Nigeria. Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 11(6): 215-221