Contemporarily, technology has birthed inventions which perform tasks orthodoxly executed by human. A notorious example of such invention is ChatGPT developed by Open AI. This invention is capable of writing essays, song lyrics and other related literary and artistic works simply on the instruction of its end-user. As beckoning as this feat seems, it portends a great lacuna to the extant laws regulating and protecting literary and artistic works. Premise on this, this piece will highlight the challenges occasioned by technological invention to the law regulating literary and artistic work in Nigeria – the Copyright Act. In doing so, the position to be taken by the Nigeria law to resolve these challenges as well as an overview of what copyright entails will be accentuated.
December 5, 2025
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