The protection of ideas under the Law of Confidence: surpassing the tentacles of the copyright law in Nigeria
Stephen Oluwaseun Oke · Commonwealth Law Bulletin · 2012
Against the backdrop of the emergence and evolution of copyright law in Nigeria, a weak strain is inherent in the nature of protection it offers. The limitation of copyright law to the expression of an idea rather than the idea itself begs for a complementary species in this genus of intellectual property. The centrepiece of this work, therefore, is to explore the legal protection of ideas by illuminating the prospects in the law of confidence which push the envelope as far as the tentacles of copyright law are concerned.