The Cybercrime Act and Intellectual Property Rights: An Interrogation

Authors: Kelvin Bribena PhD

Affiliation: Faculty of Law, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Corresponding Author: [email protected]

December 5, 2025

SIAR-Global Journal of Social Sciences & Legal Review

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17828760

The Cybercrime Act and Intellectual Property Rights: An Interrogation

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The paper interrogated the corelates between the Cybercrimes Act 2015 and intellectual property rights in Nigeria. No doubt, the introduction of the anti-cybercrime legislation marked a watershed in the efforts geared towards the promotion of national cyber security policy and strategy in response to increased threat of the phenomenon of cybercrime to national security and economy in Nigeria. As a developing country, the development of policy, technical and legal measures for the promotion and protection of the critical national information infrastructure presents a strong imperative to address the persistent 'digital dilemma' that has plagued developing countries in addressing the challenges of the cyberspace and the development of new digital economy. The Cybercrime Act is the first cybercrime legislation in the country following protracted public debate on the high incidence and negative impact of cybercrime on the economic, sociocultural and political activities in the country. The black letter research method as in doctrinal style was employed which focused on the analysis of legal rules and principles within primary sources like statutes, case law, and regulations as well as secondary sources like books, journal articles, and online data banks. As such, this paper examined the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) infringement from the prism of cybercrime and the Cybercrimes Act 2015. In doing so, it considered the definitional and structural approaches involved in the main instruments, which provided major frameworks and strategies for promoting and ensuring cyber security in the global information superhighway. The paper underscored the technological roots and the associated digital connection that has shaped the contours of cybercrime phenomenon and what it has developed into and affirmed the far-reaching implication on the protection of IPRs indicating the connection between cybercrime and IPR crimes in the form of digital piracy and other forms of IPR infringement.

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Cybercrime, intellectual property rights, infringement, information communication technology, interrogation.

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Kelvin Bribena PhD (2025). The Cybercrime Act and Intellectual Property Rights: An Interrogation. SIAR-Global Journal of Social Sciences & Legal Review, Vol. 1, No. 1. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17828760

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