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Title: | VIOLATION OF COPYRIGHT THROUGH PHOTOCOPYING: A CASE STUDY OF FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, MINNA. |
Authors: | Babalola, G. A. |
Keywords: | copyright photocopying |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
Publisher: | Borno Library, Archival and Information Science Journal |
Abstract: | The paper examined violation of copyright through photocopying: a case study of Federal University of Technology, Bosso and Gidan Kwano Campuses Minna Niger State. The research design used was survey. The researcher designed a self-constructed questionnaire tagged “Violation of Copyright Questionnaire” (VOCOPQ) which were administered to all the managers of the photocopying centres. The data presented and analysed in this paper are extracts from the information elicited from the questionnaire. The study revealed amongst other things that photocopying service is a briskly business and that violation of copyright through photocopying is an offence that is being committed by both staff and students. The paper concluded by giving recommendations amongst which include the organization of intensive and persistent enlightenment programme on copyright law at the Federal University of Technology, Minna and in all other academic communities in Nigeria and that copyright law should be made a core course in all higher institutions of learning in the country. |
URI: | http://repository.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7952 |
Appears in Collections: | Library Information Technology |
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