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🎓 #Frameit DO NOT USE MY IMAGE OR LIKENESS WITHOUT MY PERMISSION: MY IDENTITY, MY RIGHT, MY PROPERTY   👨🏾‍⚖️The Law in Nigeria now; -   Distinguishes between a copyright claim on a photograph and an image rights claim by the person in it, confirming that an individual can seek compensation for unauthorized commercial use of their likeness. -You possess 'image rights' that are separate from copyright. -You have authority over how your picture or likeness is used commercially. -Although photographers hold copyright for images, the individual depicted has a distinct right to manage the commercial use of their likeness. -The claim can be based on defamation, unjust enrichment, or privacy violations, not just copyright issues. -   Clear contracts and consent are essential for the legal commercial use of images. 👨🏾‍⚖️ Using someone's photo in an ad campaign without permission or a legal reason violates their right to privacy as stated in Section 37 of th...

  PROTECTING TRADITIONAL CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS AS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSETS BY HON. OLOWO OJO AJIBOYE [1] Abstract Traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) are sitting on a gold mine worth in the latest estimation, billions of dollars. Yet they remain untapped particularly in undeveloped countries like Nigeria. The principal cause of this is all round ignorance. Ignorance is synonymous with darkness and with darkness comes inaction, or the pretence of action. With darkness comes fraud and thievery and their accompanying agents of intellectual property poachers or exploiters. As a consequence, little or no effort is put in place by the people or agencies concerned to recognise the economic importance of TCEs as intellectual property assets and to protect and enforce them as such for the benefit of the source communities and for the nation. This lapse has given rise to cultural appropriators or intellectual property thieves to plunder cultural intellectual property assets worth ...