Section 491: Making or dealing in infringing copies of copyright work

Any person who knowingly‐
(a) makes for sale or hire any infringing copy of a work in which copyright subsists; or
(b) sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or hire any
infringing copy of any such work; or
(c) distributes infringing copies of any such work either for the purposes of trade or to
such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright; or
(d) by way of trade exhibits in public any infringing copy of any such work,
is guilty of a simple offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding four naira for every
copy dealt with in contravention of this section of this Code, but not exceeding one
hundred naira in respect of the same transaction; or, on the case of a second or
subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprisonment for two months.